Who has deployed the web app locally?

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I’ve been thinking of setting up a local server for a while as my tech skills are probably up to it. I just wondered how many Farmboters out there are running the web app off a local server? Have you had any major issues?

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I have. Harder than I tought because of some bugs but that’s the fun of it. I have a local instance of openfarm too.

I’ve corrected the procedures so they are all right now

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Thanks for replying Nicolas. Are the corrected procedures on Farmbots github?

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yes, on the wiki for openfarm and the ubuntu howto for the web app

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Hi @nicolas what are you doing with a local version of openfarm if I may ask? Did you copy the database to your local server to have it available offline?

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It was in case no internet connection available. There’s no way to download the crop DB so it was only with custom entries

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I’m considering setting up a local copy of the app here in Australia as well. I find that in the evening when I create squences etc, the Farmbot server is very slow (20 seconds or more per click), probably because this coincides with a busy time in the US. The internet connection here is quite fast, and other websites in the US are not slow.
I have a Ubuntu server here that I can use.

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Any tips for setting up the server locally?
I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get is to work, so I gave up and packed the farmbot away.
Recently moved it to a location with reliable internet but I think the farmbot can’t tolerate the slow ping times? (It’s over satellite so averages 650ms to Australian servers and ~2000ms to farmbot servers).
How long would you estimate it took you to get it to work?

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I don’t have a FarmBot (yet), but I was able to set up the web app in a KVM on Debian Buster without too much pain. I did it pretty much like this, with some nudging:

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