Docker images missing MQTT support (--mqtt flag not compiled in)

[horiacondrea]

Bug Report

Description

All published Docker images (latest, v0.8.0) are built without the mqtt
feature flag, making the Home Assistant integration completely unusable via Docker.

Error

error: unexpected argument '--mqtt' found
Usage: sensing-server --tick-ms <TICK_MS> --ui-path <UI_PATH>
--http-port <HTTP_PORT> --ws-port <WS_PORT> --bind-addr <BIND_ADDR>

Steps to reproduce

1. Pull any published image (latest or v0.8.0)
2. Run with --source esp32 --mqtt --mqtt-host <ip>
3. Error above appears immediately, container keeps restarting

Expected behaviour

The Docker image should be built with --features mqtt as documented
in docs/integrations/home-assistant.md, which explicitly recommends
Docker as the easiest path for non-developers.

Environment

• Docker image: ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest and ruvnet/wifi-densepose:v0.8.0
• Deployed via Portainer on Home Assistant

Also tried building from source using the repository Dockerfile —
same error. The Dockerfile itself is missing --features mqtt
in the cargo build command.

[ruvnet]

Taking a look

[ruvnet]

Thanks for the detailed report @horiacondrea — you're right about v0.8.0, and this is already fixed in newer builds. Here's the full picture and how to get a working image.

What happened

• v0.8.0 (tagged 2026-05-13) was built without --features mqtt — its Dockerfile build line is just cargo build --release -p wifi-densepose-sensing-server. So that image genuinely has no --mqtt flag. 👍 confirmed.
• Fixed on 2026-05-25 in 2154b6931 ("fix(docker): include HA-DISCO MQTT + cog-ha-matter; restores docker pull fails on Apple Silicon despite #631 being merged #794"), which added --features mqtt to docker/Dockerfile.rust.
• That fix is in v0.9.0, v0.10.0, v0.11.0, v0.12.0 and in the current rolling latest (rebuilt 2026-05-30 from main, revision 9ad550d9 — verified to include the MQTT build + CLI flags).

So current main is not missing --features mqtt — that line is present today (docker/Dockerfile.rust line 25).

Fix: re-pull a current image

The most likely reason latest still failed for you is a stale cached image — Docker/Portainer won't re-fetch a tag it already has locally. Force a fresh pull:

# Docker Hub
docker pull ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest
# or GHCR
docker pull ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest

# Verify the MQTT flags are present:
docker run --rm ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest --help | grep -i mqtt
# expect: --mqtt, --mqtt-host, --mqtt-port, --mqtt-prefix, ...

In Portainer: enable "Always pull the image" when recreating the container (or docker compose pull first), otherwise it keeps the old cached latest. If you prefer a pinned version, use ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:v0.12.0 (or any tag ≥ v0.9.0) instead of v0.8.0.

Then run with MQTT

docker run -d --name ruview   -e CSI_SOURCE=esp32   -p 3000:3000 -p 3001:3001 -p 5005:5005/udp   ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest   --source esp32 --mqtt --mqtt-host <your-broker-ip>

(env-var form also works: -e RUVIEW_MQTT=1 -e RUVIEW_MQTT_HOST=<broker-ip>.)

Heads-up on a recent security change (#864): the image is now secure-by-default — if you don't set RUVIEW_API_TOKEN it auto-generates one and prints it to the logs (docker logs ruview). For a trusted home LAN you can keep the old open behaviour with -e RUVIEW_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED=1.

Could you confirm the --help | grep mqtt output after a forced re-pull? If --mqtt still isn't there on a freshly-pulled latest, please paste the first few log lines (they include the image revision) and I'll dig in. Otherwise this should be good to close as fixed in v0.9.0+.

[horiacondrea]

Hello @ruvnet ,

After force-removing the image via docker rmi -f and pulling a
completely fresh ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest, the --mqtt
flag is still not present in --help output.

Full --help output shows no mqtt flags at all. The image pulled
today (2026-05-30) is still missing MQTT support.

##Log

WiFi-DensePose sensing server

Usage: sensing-server [OPTIONS]

Options:

  --http-port <HTTP_PORT>

      HTTP port for UI and REST API [default: 8080]

  --ws-port <WS_PORT>

      WebSocket port for sensing stream [default: 8765]

  --udp-port <UDP_PORT>

      UDP port for ESP32 CSI frames [default: 5005]

  --ui-path <UI_PATH>

      Path to UI static files (repo `ui/`; from `v2/` use `../ui` or rely on auto-detect) [default: ../ui]

  --tick-ms <TICK_MS>

      Tick interval in milliseconds (default 100 ms = 10 fps for smooth pose animation) [default: 100]

  --bind-addr <BIND_ADDR>

      Bind address (default 127.0.0.1; set to 0.0.0.0 for network access) [env: SENSING_BIND_ADDR=] [default: 127.0.0.1]

  --allowed-host <HOST>

      Additional hostname (with or without `:PORT`) to permit in the `Host` header — defends loopback-bound deployments against DNS rebinding. Loopback names (`localhost`, `127.0.0.1`, `[::1]`) are always permitted implicitly. Pass multiple times to add several entries. Comma-separated values are also accepted via the `SENSING_ALLOWED_HOSTS` env var

  --disable-host-validation

      Disable Host-header validation entirely. Use only when the server sits behind a reverse proxy that already canonicalises `Host` (e.g. nginx `proxy_set_header Host`) — bare deployments stay vulnerable to DNS rebinding without it

  --source <SOURCE>

      Data source: auto, wifi, esp32, simulate [default: auto]

  --benchmark

      Run vital sign detection benchmark (1000 frames) and exit

  --load-rvf <PATH>

      Load model config from an RVF container at startup

  --save-rvf <PATH>

      Save current model state as an RVF container on shutdown

  --model <PATH>

      Load a trained .rvf model for inference

  --progressive

      Enable progressive loading (Layer A instant start)

  --export-rvf <PATH>

      Export an RVF container package and exit (no server)

  --train

      Run training mode (train a model and exit)

  --dataset <PATH>

      Path to dataset directory (MM-Fi or Wi-Pose)

  --dataset-type <TYPE>

      Dataset type: "mmfi" or "wipose" [default: mmfi]

  --epochs <EPOCHS>

      Number of training epochs [default: 100]

  --checkpoint-dir <DIR>

      Directory for training checkpoints

  --pretrain

      Run self-supervised contrastive pretraining (ADR-024)

  --pretrain-epochs <PRETRAIN_EPOCHS>

      Number of pretraining epochs (default 50) [default: 50]

  --embed

      Extract embeddings mode: load model and extract CSI embeddings

  --build-index <TYPE>

      Build fingerprint index from embeddings (env|activity|temporal|person)

  --node-positions <NODE_POSITIONS>

      Node positions for multistatic fusion (format: "x,y,z;x,y,z;...") [env: SENSING_NODE_POSITIONS=]

  --calibrate

      Start field model calibration on boot (empty room required)

  --edge-registry-url <URL>

      Override the upstream URL for the edge module registry. Set to a mirror or local file://... URL for air-gapped deployments. Empty string or --no-edge-registry disables the endpoint entirely [env: RUVIEW_EDGE_REGISTRY_URL=] [default: https://storage.googleapis.com/cognitum-apps/app-registry.json]

  --edge-registry-ttl-secs <SECS>

      Cache TTL for the edge module registry, in seconds [env: RUVIEW_EDGE_REGISTRY_TTL_SECS=] [default: 3600]

  --no-edge-registry

      Disable the edge module registry endpoint entirely. Returns 404 on `GET /api/v1/edge/registry`. Use for air-gapped deployments [env: RUVIEW_NO_EDGE_REGISTRY=]

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-h, --help

[ruvnet]

@horiacondrea you were right — and thanks for the careful re-test. A fresh latest genuinely had no --mqtt flag, and the earlier "fixed in v0.9.0+" was a misdiagnosis on our side.

The actual root cause (not the Docker build flag)

The --mqtt* flags were defined only in a cli::Args struct that nothing referenced, while the binary parses a separate main::Args that had no mqtt fields — and main.rs never started the mqtt:: publisher. So --mqtt could never appear in --help, and no Docker rebuild (--features mqtt or otherwise) could fix it — it was a code-wiring gap, not a build-flag problem. That's why re-pulling didn't help.

Fix (now merged to main)

PR #874 (merged) extracts the flags into a shared cli::MqttArgs, flattens them into the binary's real parser, spawns the publisher on --mqtt, and bridges the sensing broadcast into the typed VitalsSnapshot stream. Verified end-to-end against a live mosquitto: 20 Home-Assistant auto-discovery entities + live state (presence / person-count / breathing / heart-rate / RSSI).

What you need to do

The rolling latest image rebuilds from main, so the next publish will include the wired-in flags. After it builds, please:

docker pull ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest   # force a fresh pull
docker run --rm ghcr.io/ruvnet/wifi-densepose:latest --help | grep -i mqtt
# expect: --mqtt, --mqtt-host, --mqtt-port, --mqtt-prefix, ...

If --mqtt still isn't there on a freshly-pulled image after the next build, paste the first log lines (they include the image revision) and I'll dig in. Sorry for the earlier runaround.