Database should be created and populated automatically, or at least documented

[StreakyCobra]

On new installations, the database does not exist and raposfly fails because of this.

Raposfly should either automatically:

• Initialize the database
• Create a default admin account

or at least document it in the installation procedure.

[philippetheis]

Hello, I have the same problem after the installation and docker build. there is an error message shown "Impossible to connect to database"
Could you please tell me how I can manually initialize the db and create a default admin account?

Thanks a lot and best regards

[StreakyCobra]

Hi @philippetheis,

I'm writing this from memory because I don't have my development Raspberry Pi at the moment, but this will hopefully already help you:

1. Open an interactive bash session to the backend container (container name may vary):

   docker exec -it raposfly_backend_1 bash
   

2. This should put you in "/usr/lib/raposfly" by default, where you can the initialize the database:

   python manage.py migrate
   

3. And then create the super user:

   python manage.py createsuperuser
   

It may be required to restart raposfly after this to take effect, I'm not sure.

[philippetheis]

Perfect it works! Thanks a lot for your super fast help! have a nice day and regards from Zurich.

[StreakyCobra]

Glade to hear :) My pleasure! 🇨🇭