xperimental
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1 year ago The default configuration has no default path for the token file. This is on purpose, because the location of the file very much depends on how and where the exporter is running. I have seen that a few people just set this to token.json putting it in the working directory of the exporter, which can be a valid configuration and is the one I use for testing during development, but I don't see this as a working configuration for example for a deployment as a SystemD service. It would make more sense to have it in, for example, /var/lib/netatmo-exporter then.
I agree that the Docker image should provide a sensible default value and map it to a volume, because we can provide a "recommended configuration" there. And that's why the image does just that and sets the path to /var/lib/netatmo-exporter/netatmo-token.json and defines it as a volume (code).
I agree that it is not properly documented :slightly_smiling_face:
Maybe it already has, and it's just not documented, but a default folder to mount as a volume would be nice.