Openhab 1 and Openhab2 installed on the same RPI

[chriscolden]

Hi,

I was just looking at migrating to openhab 2 from openhab 1.

Quick question. I know these cannot be running at the same time, however is it possible to have them both installed on the same raspberry pi?

The idea being, I can have openhab 1 as auto started and shut that down when I want to work on my openhab 2 implementation?

If i can this would mean I’d be able to work on openhab 2 at my own pace, rather than having to quickly get it all setup again.

Many Thanks,
Chris

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@chriscolden

Quick question. I know these cannot be running at the same time, however is it possible to have them both installed on the same raspberry pi?

Yes. They made all the relevant files and such go to unique locations so there is no overlap.

@chriscolden

The idea being, I can have openhab 1 as auto started and shut that down when I want to work on my openhab 2 implementation?

Yes, and if you review the Migration Tutorial you will see that is the approach I go down.

Migration from OH 1.x to OH 2 Tutorial

This Tutorial is Deprecated. Please see the Official Docs I’ll leave this content up for posterity but please use the official docs. It has been significantly updated with new sections including how to configure using addons.cfg and runtime.cfg. I am starting the migration from OH 1 to OH 2 with the intent of both upgrading my deployment and creating a tutorial for the official OH 2 docs. I tend to be very thorough and deliberate so this may take a few days and it might become longer than ne…

Now that I think about it, I never added a step to remove the OH 1.x install.

[chriscolden]

Thanks for the info, I’m more than happy to start work on this now. I’ll certainly be giving your guide a read through as well to help with the process.