The new playground

[gogo76227]

Hi Mik,

I didn’t have much time in the last two weeks… Just now I had a look and had again “Failed to load 1 deployment…” . I also saw on the Presearch website that one Presearch node was down.

I had a look into the Playground-Presearch and got a message which was difficult to read (because of the used colors) that I think 3 of my contracts were old (or something similar). So, I deleted all old contracts and deployed a new node to get rid off the “Failed to load…” error message and to have 7 nodes running.

Right when I pressed “Deploy” for the new node, all my Presearch nodes on the Presearch website went offline at the same time!

Then for approx. one minute the newly deployed node came online (on the Presearch website) and went offline right afterwards.

Now all nodes are offline on the Presearch website - and in the Playground all of them show “No Data Available” which normally means they are not (yet) online… I also can’t ping them because I don’t know the IP addresses.

I might delete all of them and start from scratch - or what do you think?

A few minutes after posting this I got the following…

While the contract section shows:

and I do have enough TFT for several months in the wallet.

[Mik]

Usually it’s better to deal with the contracts in the weblet page (here Presearch) instead of the Contracts List.

Do you remember what the message was saying? If you deleted contracts related to the presearch deployments, it most certainly affected them. You might have to redeploy them in this case.

Also, note that you can ping the nodes via Planetary Network IP. (e.g. ping -c 4 planetary_IP).
You can download the TF Planetary Network Connector and then you can ping the address (see the manual here). Before deleting such contracts, next time you could try to ping the deployment to see if it works.

I just pinged them all, and they all responded. So the nodes are up.

[gogo76227]

Usually it’s better to deal with the contracts in the weblet page (here Presearch) instead of the Contracts List.

Thanks. Will do so in the future

Do you remember what the message was saying? If you deleted contracts related to the presearch deployments, it most certainly affected them. You might have to redeploy them in this case.

It was barely readable because it was in light red on white - and I’m using dark mode. It was something about contracts, but it was only visible for a few seconds.

Also, note that you can ping the nodes via Planetary Network IP. (e.g. ping -c 4 planetary_IP).
You can download the TF Planetary Network Connector and then you can ping the address (see the manual here). Before deleting such contracts, next time you could try to ping the deployment to see if it works.

I just pinged them all, and they all responded. So the nodes are up.

Thanks again!

I’ve now set up 7 new nodes and they are up and running.

For whatever reason it takes a while to find nodes that are actually showing up in Presearch. I think it has something to do with speed requirements of Presearch, because the faster* the nodes got deployed the likelier it was that they were actually working.

*= the time span after pressing the “Deploy” button until the node is ready.

[gogo76227]

Hi Mik,

My Presearch Nodes don’t show the “Cost” anymore, actually since some time. I’m still getting charged but I have no clue how much. This also means I can’t unlock any discounts because I don’t know what my monthly charges are.

[Mik]

Is is still happening?

Which playground URL are you using?

You can also always use the calculator on https://dashboard.grid.tf to check the cost.

This might fix itself once we push new changes to main net, which is in the following days.

[gogo76227]

I’ve just reloaded the website https://playground.grid.tf/#/presearch - and yes, it still shows “No Data Available”. I really would like to know, also because I would like to see if I’m getting the mentioned discounts.

In the past it did show the exact price in TFT.

[Mik]

Ok. I will create a github issue so we can investigate.

Can you tell me which nodes you deployed on? And any other info relevant to the deployments. Thanks!

Note: this discussion is now continuing here: Presearch Not Displaying on Playground

[jefke1]

Hi,
I would like to add to the issue with presearch and the playground. I have found that it is difficult to get it running. And it frustrates me sometimes, that it takes a day or 2 for something that could be done in 5 min.
Problem 1: when adding your information or selecting the country or farm, it gets stuck validating (next to the tab base) This happens a lot!
Problem 2: if I get lucky to get the information loaded and deploy a node, I sometimes get the error message about missing node id when trying to create the contract.
Problem 3: the playground has issues loading the contracts (active contracts) or no data available.
Problem 4: this happened only a few times, but I couldn’t sign into my account after opening the site

This has been going on for a while now. I didn’t have these issues with the legacy version.

Hope it can get fixed soon.
Greetings,

jefke

[Mik]

Thanks for the feedback. That’s what we want: information!

A new and improved version of the Playground will soon be available.

Many if not all of those issues have been taken into account.

Having some aspects of the legacy version workflow was also taken into consideration. The deployment process should be much smoother.

To explore on dev net: https://new.playground.dev.grid.tf/#/portal/twin