/dev/ttyAMA0 does not exist on RasPi2 & OH2

Hi,

I just installed OH2 2.0.b3 over apt-get on my RasPi / jessie
I added the zWave Binding & Habmin2

But unfortunately I could not add the raZberry board to /ttyAMA0 as this port didn´t show up on

ls -l /dev/tty*

any sugestions?

I found this hint but I didn´t find the hint in wich file I have to add the environment variable

Had the same problem.

Fix

  1. Add user to group dialout
    sudo usermod -a -G dialout openhab

  2. Modify start.sh i.e

#!/bin/sh

echo Launching the openHAB runtime…
export EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS=-Dgnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts=/dev/ttyAMA0

DIRNAME=dirname "$0"
exec “${DIRNAME}/runtime/karaf/bin/karaf” “${@}”

If you don’t want to modify start.sh, found that creating a symlink to /dev/ttyAMA0 works…

sudo ln -s /dev/ttyAMA0 /dev/ttyUSB30
Then you can specify /dev/ttyUSB30 i den configuration of the Z-wave binding.

thanks, but ttyAMA0 still did not appear in the system when I add the “export EXTRA…” to the start.sh.

I rebooted the System…

any other hints where I could search?

Tried the symlink workaround as well?
I.e
sudo ln -s /dev/ttyAMA0 /dev/ttyUSB30
and specify /dev/ttyUSB30 in the z-wave binding configuration

no …

as there is either ttyUSB30 nor ttyAMA0 I could not symlink them in any way…

I´m confused…
thanks for helping me to get that thing running :wink:

finaly I got it fixed… (I hope so)

I activated the serial console in raspi-config

and entered the following command

`sudo systemctl mask serial-getty@ttyAMA0.service

after that I got the raZberry running…`

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Been having issues with this port and a Razberry2 card. Had to add the extra java opts: -Dgnu.io.rxtx.SerialPorts=/dev/ttyAMA0 and add user pi to tty for this to work.

@Skalleno can you please show the detail of where you added this to extra java opts. Was it in setenv or start.sh or maybe /etc/init.d/openhab2?

I would strongly suggest that you use openhabian for your pi. It is so easy to setup, and you would not have any issues with serial ports.