How to get a Flic button to work with docker and a Pi3

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I use a Flic bluetooth button connected to my Pi3.I have an issue converting from an installed node red using the bash script (Running on Raspberry Pi : Node-RED) going to a docker version. When I use the same config files used in the original node red install, everything basically works, except this node: (node-red-contrib-flic-buttons (node) - Node-RED). Both node red installs are on 3.01.

So flicd is installed and configured properly. I'm also using the pi local address in the node.

So when I use the original node red install, the flic node says: connected. When I convert to docker (with the exact same config), it says: connection closed.

How to solve this? Do I need to change something in my docker compose file, so it communicate with the flicd software installed on the same pi?

I have this docker compose to start node red:

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# Node-RED Stack or Compose

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# docker stack deploy node-red --compose-file docker-compose-node-red.yml

# docker-compose -f docker-compose-node-red.yml -p myNoderedProject up

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version: "3.7"

services:

node-red:

image: nodered/node-red:latest

environment:

- TZ=Europe/Amsterdam

ports:

- "1880:1880"

networks:

- node-red-net

volumes:

- /mnt/DOWNLOAD/NODERED:/data

volumes:

node-red-data:

networks:

node-red-net:

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Exactly which IP address did you enter in the node?

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If you mean the Flic node, I've entered 192.168.1.11. That's the local ip address of that Pi. Before it was '127.0.0.1'. I also had the mqtt node not working, but changing that to that same ip address did the trick.
Port remains the same, from the top of my head: 5551

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Double check the flicd config I sort of remember it used to bind to 127.0.0.1, if so change it to 0.0.0.0

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Default was indeed 127.0.0.1. But I also tried 0.0.0.0, 192.168.1.11 and localhost, but that does not work.

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