Changing port number on openHAB 2.0

[Benjy (Ben Clark)]

I’m assuming that’s Ubuntu 16? Anything that doesn’t use sysVinit (most new versions of each distro) should work.

[wolf_from_the_north]

can confirm that this piece of documentation is still missing.
i am running the package on a synology and am trying to reconfigure the port in latest 2,1 0004 package i downloaded.

kindest regards

[wolf_from_the_north]

confirmed that the change needs to happen in the setenv file.
is there a fix allready for this ?
I had to edit following file to get this done

/volume1/@appstore/openHAB2/runtime/bin -->setenv

then changed the line from
if [ ! -z ${OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT} ]; then
HTTP_PORT=${OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT}
else
HTTP_PORT=8080

to

if [ ! -z ${OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT} ]; then
HTTP_PORT=${OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT}
else
HTTP_PORT=DESIRED PORT

[rtvb (Robert)]

Could we not just add the port to the /etc/default/openhab2 file?

[PsyMan (Simon Britton)]

same, after a lot of hair pulling I managed to change McMyadmin to jump ports and free up 8080 for openHAB, on with the show

[Benjy (Ben Clark)]

With the latest versions of the linux packages, this should now be the same across all systems. Editing the /etc/default/openhab2 file with the lines:

OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT=9090
OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT=9091

will change the appropriate ports. Thanks @ralle for pushing this fix.

If it still doesn’t work as expected for some, let me know and I will work to resolve it.

[dan12345 (Dan)]

Thank you! Although I switched my other applications and am running openHAB on default ports, so can’t test…

[Todelec]

Hi,
I installed latest stable openHab2 on RPi3 and successfully changed ports in /etc/default/openhab2 as mentioned above.

The problem I have is that voice control with HABDroid only seems to work when I use port 8080.

Is this a bug or do I have to change ports in additional files?

UPDATE:
Everything works with latest HABDroid from git-repo on S5mini

[Mike_Klein (Mike)]

have the latest version, not working for me to change the port to 80

running on an RPi

[Benjy (Ben Clark)]

Port 80 is a restricted port, you’ll need to openhab with root privileges to use it.

It might be more beneficial to run a reverse proxy instead.

[Mike_Klein (Mike)]

thanks, it is working now, but still can’t pair Hue Emulator with Google Assistant

[Kai (Kai Kreuzer)]

Afaik, it does not work with Google Assistant, only with Google Home, see Google Home Integration.

[Rar9]

Can some tell me how to get a fresh openhabian install to use port 80 with ngnix reverse proxy ?

Which file(s) need changing ?

[Dim (Angelos)]

@Rar9

Which file(s) need changing ?

You don’t need to change the openHAB2 ports that are used by default (8080 for http, 8443 for https) when using a reverse proxy like nginx or apache.
The proxy is running on port 80.
The clients connect to the proxy on 80 and the proxy connects to OH2 on 8080.

Check the link on Benjy’s post on how to set up a reverse proxy:

@Benjy

It might be more beneficial to run a reverse proxy instead.

If you want to use the upcoming Google’s stuff, you need to switch openHAB2 to listen to port 80 natively (no use of proxy).
This is more difficult since:

@Benjy

Port 80 is a restricted port, you’ll need to openhab with root privileges to use it.

@Kai

Google Home does not listen to the port it is told, but always expects the hue bridge to be available on port 80 - this means that you have to configure openHAB to use port 80 instead of 8080 for the webserver (check the docs on how to do that) and for using port 80, you need to make sure to run it as root.

[Mike_Klein (Mike)]

Kai, to share my experience: Traveling to Munich (I am not living in Germany) I took the chance to buy a Google home and trying it out at a friend who as an original Philips Hue. The procedure in the google home app had been still the same. Back home, google home stayed on hue-adapter.appspot.com and I was able to include my openhab! Thanks for all the support.

[747driver (Eric Le Baron)]

Absolute beginner here who had the same problem after installing openhab-2.1.0 on a Mac mini running OS X Server on El Capitan 10.11.6
Solution here thanks to Udo_Hartmann.

[Michael_Stjerna]

Hi

I have changed the default port from 8080 to 8090. Everything is working fine locally but i can’t access the PaperUI or HABPanel via the cloud service.
openHAB Cloud
org.openhab.openhabcloud

Where do I define the changed port to this binding?

The only change made so far is:

openhabian@openHABianPi:/$ nano /etc/default/openhab2

# The ports openHAB will bind its HTTP/HTTPS web server to.
OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT=8090
OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT=8053

Please advice

//Michael Stjerna

[rtvb (Robert)]

I guess you don’t need to, since the openHAB Cloud service connects from your local installation to the cloud (from inside to outside) by design, so you don’t need to open your Internet connection.

And both Paper UI and HABPanel cannot be accessed as far as I know, only basic UI.

[sihui]

@rtvb

And both Paper UI and HABPanel cannot be accessed as far as I know, only basic UI.

Sure, that works too:

https://home.myopenhab.org/start/index

enter your credentials from your account and you are good to go …

[Michael_Stjerna]

@sihui

nter your credentials from your account and you are good to go …

Yes I got this working when I run on port 8080 but not on port 8090 that I use now.
There need to be some configuration for the remote “myopenhab” port settings…

Port for the local access is changed here:

openhabian@openHABianPi:/etc/openhab2/services$ nano /etc/default/openhab2

# The ports openHAB will bind its HTTP/HTTPS web server to.
OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT=8090
OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT=8053