@jkandasa I appreciate it.

Are the mycontroller.yaml setting the same for the binary and the docker container? Yes, same file/schema used on binary as well as for container. @rayven you have to point to your influx db location, docker container always runs on it's own network space, if you specified http://localhost:8086, it tries inside container. Put your host ip address on it. also enable the metric database. installation with docker container: https://mycontroller.org/docs/installation/quick-installation/docker-container/ install influx database: https://mycontroller.org/docs/getting-started/install-influxdb/ backend configurations: https://mycontroller.org/docs/installation/advanced-installation/backend-configuration/

it may be a more universal solution for the node/switch to use the request(uint8_t childSensorId, uint8_t variableType) function and resend the command to the node/relayActuator after a timeout. This is what @jkandasa mentioned in his post earlier. Still if the node/switch receives the request() it does not know what sensor sent it. If this was contained in the message variable we could implement a fairly robust solution to this.