RPi 3 Raspbian 4.4.13 Openhab-designer 1.8.3 32bit I have the server up and running with the demo sitemap, but cannot get designer to even show up. I followed the steps perfectly, but nothing happens when I click execute. I deleted all files and reloaded with the same result. What might I be doi…

Try running it from the command prompt to see what errors are printed when it tries to start. I find I have to run it with sudo because when I’m running Designer I’m running it as me but openHAB sets the permissions on the files to openhab:openhab and I don’t have permission to write to them.

[image] rlkoshak: openHAB sets the permissions on the files to openhab:openhab and I don’t have permission to write to them openHAB sets permissions actively? I don’t think so!? Executing the Designer with sudo shouldn’t be promoted. Can you add yourself to group openhab or change the group t…

[image] ThomDietrich: openHAB sets permissions actively? I don’t think so!? It does, or really the script /usr/share/openhab/bin/setpermissions.sh which gets called by the daemon start script does. (NOTE: this is for OH 1.x) I had an issue with is a while back as it was changing the permissio…

Here are the results, with the directory listing to show permissions; pi@raspberrypi:/opt/openhab-designer $ ls -aol total 508 drwxr-xr-x 8 root 4096 Sep 27 21:49 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root 4096 Sep 27 21:49 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 May 22 21:42 addons -rw-r–r-- 1 root 85642 May 22 21:41 …

The permissions that matter and that we are talking about are those in the configurations folders, not Designer’s folders. However, that doesn’t matter because the errors you are seeing makes me realize that the Designer downloads on the openhab.org site do not support ARM and wont run on the Pi. T…

Set up samba on the pi Share the configurations folder via a samba share Mount the samba share on your Ubuntu workstation If you search for “samba” on this forum I believe you will find several threads where this is talked about. If I remember correctly, openHABian come with samba preconfigured,…

[image] rlkoshak: @kai , @ThomDietrich do either of you know or can point us to someone who does know: is there a build of Designer for ARM? No, there isn’t and never will be. The Designer is a desktop application and as such it isn’t meant to be run on a (usually headless) SBC and it is far t…

Ok, followed rikoshak’s advice and after some Samba 101 lesson learning have it all set up and running. Thanks rikoshak! I sped up the Ubuntu mounting by using Smb4K. I think it would be helpful to have the necessary steps and lessons learned in the set up guide. How can I help by adding that?

Hey Will, help is always welcome. Can you tell us which details you are missing in the related docs article: http://docs.openhab.org/installation/linux.html#network-sharing You could create a Pull Request or Issue here: GitHub - openhab/openhab-docs: This repository contains the documentation for …

Openhab-designer not showing up

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will_stewart1a (Will) September 28, 2016, 10:10pm 7

Ok, since my workstation is Ubuntu, I tried a few searches here on how to reach into the RPi from Designer on my workstation, but no success. Did I miss something?

Some links I found;

P.S. I do like how this site is organized, and if the dropdown for tags were alphabetical or subgrouped, it would be even better.