Abstract

It might be necessary to force a refresh of all sensor states, especially binary ones, manually. This guide will explain how to clear the local mosquitto persistence file and restart the Site Controller which will force a local re-evaluation of all states and transmission to the azeti Engine instance (MQTT broker).

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Clearing mosquitto persistence

Linux (Ubuntu, Rapsbian, Debian, ...)

1. Login to the Site Controller terminal (Linux command line) and execute the below command. It will extract the mosquitto persistence path from the configuration file and rename it with a backup extension

   Code Block
   sudo awk '/persistence_location/ { db_file=$2"mosquitto.db"; system("mv "db_file" "db_file".bak") }' /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

2. Restart Site Controller

   Code Block
   sudo "/opt/azeti/SiteController/run_SiteController.py" restart

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