Installation of 4.3 hangs "installing add-on"

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hi All

After a long time I’ve finally got round to installing 4.3. I’ve been running 2.5.1 for ages and was absolutely satisfied with it, until I managed to delete the docker container it was running in. :joy:

I’m doing a clean install of 4.3 on a Synology Docker container and the installation hangs at the add in stage.

I select the 6 recommended add-ons and then the installing add-on window appears and then nothing. No error message and nothing is installed.

I’m running a Synology NAS DS720+ with DSM version 7.2.2, everything is up to date.

I’ve renamed the old parent folder containing the conf, addons and userdata folders so it’s effectively a clean install from new.

Any suggestions?

openhab hanging
openhab hanging954×1000 34.1 KB

PS. I used the script from Marius Hosting here as I’m not that technical!

If it’s something to do with Java (which seems to be one of the addons that is suggested to be installed) then a simple explanation of what I need to look for would be appreciated.

I’ve got Home Assistant working in another Docker container and really don’t want to have to switch to that as I’m so familiar with OpenHab, and I love Habpanel (which I’m sure you’re going to tell me is outdated given the new UI).

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There isn’t any reason why it should be hanging on installing add-ons. Do you see anything relevant in the logs?

I wouldn’t say it’s outdated so much as it hasn’t been updated. But it’s still supported so there’s no need to jump in the immediate future. Though MainUI is more capable and under more active development so a move eventually would probably be a good idea.

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Hi Rich

Merry Christmas!

I’ve just restarted the container just in case, does this help? I’ve really no clue what I’m looking at here…

Error downloading mvn:org.openhab.addons.bundles/org.openhab.persistence.inmemory/4.3.0
2024-12-25 09:16:33.765 [ERROR] [core.karaf.internal.FeatureInstaller] - Failed installing ‘openhab-persistence-inmemory’: Error:
Error downloading mvn:org.openhab.addons.bundles/org.openhab.persistence.inmemory/4.3.0

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That points to some connectivity issue. It might also be a remote problem.

Wonder what happens if you directly request the url from wget

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I’ve no clue what you’re talking about here, not that technical I’m afraid.

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Literally just

wget https://org.openhab.addons.bundles/org.openhab.persistence.inmemory/4.3.0

But indeed the problem is the container cannot reach the Internet. Maybe there’s a firewall is blocking it or something like that.

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Hi Rich

I’ve been looking at the container settings and comparing to a working (earlier release) of OpenHab and see that where Marius hosting suggests using root as the user in the script that the working container (with a v3 release of Openhab) shows host as the user. I can’t select host in the user-defined script set-up so not sure here.

Also I’m running Pi-Hole on my network so disabled that to see if that was somehow blocking the container but that doesn’t help.

Feeling quite stuck here :tired_face:

Think I’ll contact Marius as my next step given it’s his script and instructions I’m following.

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How do I use this? Open a terminal window and type it in or use some other utility? Told you I’m not very technical!

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Yes, and if you are not that technical, adding dealing with the complexities imposed by running on Synology on top of the complexities of using Docker may not be the best choice of deployment.

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Had a few days playing with Home Assistant, but got annoyed that you need to pay a subscription to get integration with Alexa and Smartthings working.

So I tried with Openhab again, I didn’t use the script from Marius as he was pretty much useless and didn’t reply to me when I reached out to him,

Installed the image directly through the Synology container manager, selected Host rather than Bridge as the network and BINGO, everything works :slight_smile:

Happy to be back on board with OH as I was getting really annoyed with HA.