Running a sensor application on an RPi

To run a sensor application on an RPi, proceed as the following steps suggest:

  1. Insert an SD card into the RPi.
  2. Connect an Ethernet cable and open an SSH connection.
  3. Navigate to /home/pi/sensor.
  4. Build an image and run a Docker container:
# Build an image from a Dockerfiledocker build -t websocket-sensor .## Run container in foregrounddocker run --privileged -it --rm --name websocket-sensor-container websocket-sensor## Run container in background# docker run --privileged -d  --rm --name websocket-sensor-container websocket-sensor## Fetch the logs of a container# docker logs -f websocket-sensor-container## Stop running container# docker stop websocket-sensor-container
Console output when a sensor app ...

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