Installing Docker Desktop for Visual Inspection

To use Visual Inspection on Windows, Docker Desktop is required. Follow the steps bellow to install it on your computer:

Step 1: Installing Docker Desktop

  1. Go to this link and download the Windows version:

    https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/

  2. Run the downloaded executable and follow the default steps

Step 2: Configuring Docker Desktop

  1. Once Docker Desktop has been successfully installed, use the below graphic to open settings and locate the “Docker Engine” menu item

  2. Add the following text to the configuration

    "runtimes": { 
	"nvidia": { 	
		"path": "/usr/bin/nvidia-container-runtime", 
		"runtimeArgs": [] 
	} 
}

  3. The configuration should now look like the graphic below

  4. Click “Apply & Restart”

Step 3: Run docker compose file

Download Docker Compose directly from Telit's documentation resources clicking the button bellow.


  1. Create a new directory in the place you want DWVI to be stored

  2. Move “docker-compose.yml” into this new directory

  3. Run the following commands in a normal Windows command prompt:

    1. cd <directory you created in 1>

    2. docker compose pull

    3. docker compose up -d

  4. Check back in Docker Desktop. You should see four images in the “images” section and one running container in the “containers” section, as shown in the graphic below

Step 4: Stopping/restarting DWVI

  1. To stop DWVI, click the stop button on the “vi_studio” container

  2. To restart DWVI, click the play button on the “vi_studio” container

Step 5: Updating DWVI

To finish up setting Docker Desktop for VI, update deviceWISE Visual Inspection through the following steps:

  1. Run the following commands in a normal Windows command prompt:

    1. cd <directory containing docker-compose.yml from step 3>

    2. docker compose pull