Command line exec node ffmpeg using NR in Docker

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I'm struggling to run a command in exec node and I need some pointers please;

I have created a bash script and can successfully run an ffmpeg command with my script named ffmpegrun.sh as below;

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However, when I run in node red as below;

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I get the following errors;

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Can anybody assist please?

Thanks in advance

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In the exec node, move what you have in the Command option to the extra input parameters and in the Command option enter bash

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Thanks for coming back to me.

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Hmmm it is working for me with a test script
can you try this - add a new script to the /home/pi/bin folder called test.sh with the following

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello World"

then issue a sudo chmod u+x test.sh to make it executable. Then try this test flow:

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Umm, not working either my end :grimacing:

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however fine, when cli input

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what are the permissions on the /home/pi/bin directory ? maybe it's only visible to pi user.

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How do I check that please?

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just found permissions;
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Tried on another pi (pi3 b+) and the test.sh worked. Differences between both is Pi4 buster and in Docker?

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Just tried my original bash script on the non docker (pi3) and it also works??:unamused:

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See mentioning docker at the beginning would have been helpful.

So this sounds like a docker permission issue and I’ll have to bow out now since I’ve never used docker.

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Altered now

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The whole point of docker is that the container file system is isolated from the main computer file system - so unless you have mounted the relevant directories so they are accessible they can't see each other. Is ffmpeg installed inside the docker container ? If not then that is also unlikely to run.

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ffmpeg is installed with buster and sits outside any docker container. Node Red is inside, so I guess the issue is that the exec command is coming from inside a container?

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Unless you have a need to use Docker then one solution is to remove the docker version and install directly on the Pi using the install technique from the docs
https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi

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Ok, thanks for your help everyone.

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Sorry for reopening this issue, but I'm also struggling with it badly.
I'm using the excellent jrottenberg/ffmpeg docker image and trying to mount it to the NR's /data directory, so it would be accessible from the exec node, like that:

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I'm mounting the following docker images, to the same /data directory.

docker run -it -p 1880:1880 -v node_red_data:/data --name mynodered nodered/node-red

docker run -it -v node_red_data:/data --name myffmpeg jrottenberg/ffmpeg

REPOSITORY           TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED         SIZE
nodered/node-red     latest    c060f9cb7fd5   11 days ago     456MB
jrottenberg/ffmpeg   latest    2100506dfbea   24 months ago   218MB```

Maybe I'm missing something here or doing it wrong, because when running in bash ('docker exec -it mynodered /bin/bash') the following command:

jrottenberg/ffmpeg -version

instead of:

docker run jrottenberg/ffmpeg -version

I get nothing. Thoughts? thanks!