openHAB 2.0 RC1 Windows 10 Install Help

[jstifter (Joe Stifter)]

Trying to install on Windows 10 64 bit. See clips below:

Any ideas???

Joe

[Dim (Angelos)]

OH2 on Windows 10?

Was going to do some testing and experimenting tonight and thought to run the latest OH2 build on a Win10 Machine here, but getting the below error when running the start file. The strange part is that I do have Java Installed on this laptop, so no idea what could be causing the error. The machine has Version 8, update 91 on it. Yet I get this error? And also get same error if trying to run the start_debug as well. C:\Users\Paul.Muldoon\Desktop\OpenHab2>start.bat Launching the openHAB runti…

Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable in Windows and it should work (open up a new command prompt or reboot after you set it :))

By the way, the file size of “openhab-2.0.0.RC1.zip” should be 49.17 MB (not 124 KB as in the image above). Make sure that the download has completed correctly from https://bintray.com/openhab/mvn/openhab-distro/2.0.0.RC1

(Optional): Install Oracle Java Development Kit on Windows 10 x64:

With Oracle JRE and the JAVA_HOME environment variable set to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_121, the startup on Win 10 x64 will look like:

With Oracle JDK and the JAVA_HOME environment variable set to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121, the startup on Win 10 x64 will look like:

(you won’t get that annoying Karaf warning )

[jstifter (Joe Stifter)]

Awesome, thanks! I will try this when I get home tonight. Pretty sure I recall the zip file being 49+ MB but I will confirm that as well. Thanks again!

[jstifter (Joe Stifter)]

It worked. Thanks again!