Absolute beginner

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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hey there, i’m absolutely new in home automation. what i’m planning to do:

  • Raspberry Pi 2 as server (Raspbian Linux)
  • Touchscreen on the rasp for visualisation
  • also a visualisation on several mobile devices (android, winphone)
  • openHAB
  • connect to KNX network via ABB - USB connector (the reason is, I already have one of these, and therefore won’t buy a knx/lan connector)
  • presence simulation during absence

I tried to use RaspPi2 wit smartVISU on KNX, but there I’m stuck with getting the eibd daemon to run on the Rasp :frowning: And I’m not very familiar in hacking thru shell scripts to fix this issue.
And as I found out, smartVISU is no longer developed. So now I want to try openHAB.

Any suggestions on how and where to begin? My main issue is to get the KNX and the Rasp to talk to each other :smiley:

Thanks for help,
Xaver

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You should simply start with
http://www.openhab.org/getting-started/

That is a description for a manual install. You could also use an apt-get install on your raspberry:
https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Linux—OS-X#apt-get
From what I have read it is a little more stable and that is also my personal experience. Also upgrading is a bit easier with an apt-get install.

For your KNX system see the binding wiki page:
https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/KNX-Binding

Good luck and have fun.

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thanks for help. but it would have been too easy, just with apt-get :slight_smile:
the next problem is within the knx binding:
it says :“knx interface wether /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttyUSB0” but none of those exist. I only got /dev/AMA0, but that doesn’t work.

knx:serialPort=/dev/ttyAMA0

do I need to install eibd?

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You have to wait for a knx user, I don’t use that binding, sorry …

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np :slight_smile:

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but besides the knx issue, I should see my sitemap anyway with
http://localhost:8080/openhab.app?sitemap=yourname
or not?

I only get an error 500

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Yes, if openhab is on the same computer as your browser, otherwise use the ip adress of your openhab server:

http://<your_ip>:8080/openhab.app?sitemap=<your_sitemap_name>

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solved this one :slight_smile:

there must be a .sitemap file in /configurations/sitemaps/ first. the tutorial isn’t very clear with this point. I’ve downloaded the demo.sitemap file, now I see that I’m not as dumb as I may look like :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

sweet. now I have to get the KNX->USB part to run.

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I suggest creating a new topic with a header “KNX network via ABB - USB” to get the knx users into your boat …

Edit: Upps, you already did it :sunglasses: (I was first reading the old posts …)