can't seem to enable pihole or dhcplss

[phynias]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

i am trying to enable PIHOLE and DHCPLSS
this is my docker-compose:

   environment:
      - APP_CONF_OVERRIDE={"PIHOLE_RUN":"schedule","PIHOLE_DB_PATH":"/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db","DHCPLSS_RUN":"schedule","DHCPLSS_RUN_SCHD":"*/5 * * * *","DHCPLSS_paths_to_check":"['/etc/pihole/dhcp.leases']"}

then in my logs i see this.

19:12:23 [Config] Number of Plugins to load: 16
19:12:23 [Config] Plugins to load: ['ARPSCAN', 'AVAHISCAN', 'INTRNT', 'NSLOOKUP', 'SMTP', 'CSVBCKP', 'CUSTPROP', 'DBCLNP', 'MAINT', 'NEWDEV', 'NTFPRCS', 'SETPWD', 'SYNC', 'UI', 'VNDRPDT', 'WORKFLOWS']
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_RUN
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_RUN
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_RUN__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_RUN__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_DB_PATH
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_DB_PATH
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_DB_PATH__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : PIHOLE_DB_PATH__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN_SCHD
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN_SCHD
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN_SCHD__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_RUN_SCHD__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_paths_to_check
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_paths_to_check
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_paths_to_check__metadata
19:12:23 [Import Config] Skipped saving _KEEP_ for key : DHCPLSS_paths_to_check__metadata

i tried to look where the KEEP was coming from but i can't find anything.

Expected Behavior

it loads up the plugins i specify.

Steps To Reproduce

No response

app.conf

docker-compose.yml

What installation are you running?

Dev (netalertx-dev)

app.log

No response

Debug enabled

• I have read and followed the steps in the wiki link above and provided the required debug logs and the log section covers the time when the issue occurs.

[jokob-sk]

Hi,

I think you have to also add these two to the LOADED_PLUGINS setting otherwise the app won't recognise these settings.

J

[phynias]

added LOADED_PLUGINS to APP_CONF_OVERRIDE and same thing. the only way so far that i got it to work was manually editing the app.conf, adding the pihole and dhcplss config options there and restarting the container.

[jokob-sk]

Ok, I'll have a closer look later.

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 15:48 phynias, ***@***.***> wrote: added LOADED_PLUGINS to APP_CONF_OVERRIDE and same thing. the only way so far that i got it to work was manually editing the app.conf, adding the pihole and dhcplss config options there and restarting the container. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#975 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AW5URDFRBFNMCM45C7HA3GL2MHAYJAVCNFSM6AAAAABVYZG6CSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMMJRGU3TMMZUGE> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[jokob-sk]

Hi,

So after debugging this the plugins need to be loaded before overridden settings to preventy a circular recursion. For that I created a custom compose variable LOADED_PLUGINS. If you add it to your docker-compose like below, the plugins should load.

 LOADED_PLUGINS=["DHCPLSS","PIHOLE","ASUSWRT","FREEBOX"]

You will still need to use the APP_CONF_OVERRIDE variable to set the actual settings.

This should be available in the next release. It would be great if you could test this. Can you please switch to the netalertx-dev docker image (backup everything at first or, ideally spin up a separate container with a separate db and config), in about 15 minutes (or after the last action finishes) from now?

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Thanks in advance,
j