My installation of openhab 2026: docker for openhab, tuyamqtt, zigbee2mqtt, mosquito

My intent was to install openhab on a slackware derivative named porteus, a minimalist linux distribtion on an old laptop or alternatively on a raspbery pi *** or a radxa x4. This would be possible when I will get porteus to be compatible with docker. For now I am working with Xubuntu 22.04.1.

Initially, it is intelligent heating thermostat that trikled my interest into the intelligent home domain. In my quest to familiarize myself with Intelligent home devices operation, I began buying wifi devices and then moved to zigbee devices: thermostats,electrical plugs, electrical breaker, alarm system devices (siren, movement sensors, door sensors, camera) and heaters .

For more compatibility, I left the aqara zigbee Hub Sensor Controller for a zigbee sonoff installation which is cheaper and more easily configurable.

An openhab functional installation for the Mosquitto MQTT Broker and Zigbee2MQTT was acomplished according to the instructions of jimtng:

https://community.openhab.org/t/howto-beginners-guide-to-installing-openhab-mosquitto-etc-with-docker-on-debian-ubuntu-tips-on-backup-and-more/163776?page=2

Zigbee devices:

I was able to access most of my zigbee devices thru the zigbee2mqtt frontend:

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Wifi devices:

Interested by wifi devices, mainly tuya app recognized ones, I also installed tuya-mqtt on my openhab installation.

It worked well for a good time.

Going for other chores, I left the system for the summer. I am now resuming my automations system activities.

My intention is to report the main lines of my installation of openhab on this thread, refering to the links which contained debugging detailed information.

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