Midnight SPO on preview stuck - obi1337

Technical Questions
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What are you trying to do?
Hi! trying to follow the youtube series on part 7 but cannot get the networkSynchronization over 0.0000 %.

i do run the docker on a explizit server and i guess i need dbsync to point to my relay/bp to query it’s database, right? i just dont find this settings.

would be glad for a small hint

What’s not working or unclear?
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What have you tried so far?
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[db-sync-node:Info:91] [2025-09-21 15:35:20.99 UTC] Database is empty
[db-sync-node:Info:115] [2025-09-21 15:35:20.99 UTC] Suggesting intersection points from memory: [] and from disk: []
[db-sync-node:Info:91] [2025-09-21 15:35:20.99 UTC] Starting from Genesis
[db-sync-node.Subscription:Notice:101] [2025-09-21 15:35:21.00 UTC] Identity Required subscriptions started
[db-sync-node:Info:91] [2025-09-21 15:35:21.01 UTC] Found snapshot file for genesis
[db-sync-node:Info:91] [2025-09-21 15:35:21.01 UTC] Setting ConsistencyLevel to DBAheadOfLedger```
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I have the best repo! I always struggled but this made it easy! I followed the instruction with Docker and was able to install my midnight preview in the same build as well!

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You need to configure the .enrc file with your postgres instance. Postgres host is often the IP address of the server that is running cardano-db-sync.
midnight-node-docker/.envrc at main · midnightntwrk/midnight-node-docker · GitHub file.

export POSTGRES_HOST=“postgres” # TODO: replace with IP or host to postgres connection if not connecting to the docker one.
export POSTGRES_PORT=“5432”
export POSTGRES_USER=“postgres”
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Thank you.. It stopped and I just shut it down while I. tackled all the new dapp/smart contract tooling..That was an intense 3 weeks, I learned a lot.. The next time I set it up tho, I wanna do it on this mac I wiped and installed ubuntu.. It seems like if I wanna go farther in the Cardano infastructure, I need to be running Linux and on a seperate machine.. I can’t afford VM subscriptions, but maybe that google cloud grant coming could help me.. I just wanna be ready and have an understanding of what I need to be doing.. I have a lot of XRP people holding ADA and have shown enough support that I think I can get the ADA to produce blocks.. I just want to make sure I know what I am doing first..

Thank you for interacting, you gave me the nudge I needed to spin it back up and do it right..

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