openHAB doesn’t run on PI1 very well

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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: Raspberry Pi 1 and Raspberry Pi 3 + Bitron Video ZigBee USB Funkstick Coordinator : ember + Osram Smart+ Plugs
    • OS: Openhabian 2.4.0-1
    • Java Runtime Environment: openjdk version “1.8.0_152”
    • openHAB version: 2.4
  • Issue of the topic:
    I was trying hard to make use of an old raspberry pi 1. The intention was to setup Openhabian and use a Zigbee usb stick. Openhabian got installed together with Zigbee binding. Also ember coordinator Zigbee stick was recognised. However, devices were not able to join the network reliably: only one Osram Smart+ plug was recognised at all. However, this plug was not switchable.

I got super frustrated and decided to swap my sd card into a raspberry pi 3. All problems disappeared - All devices got recognized and were switchable.

I want to share this experience with you to avoid loosing time.

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Thank you for excellent data point as a recent community discussion centered around minimum requirements for openHABian running on Pi

Are you a brand new user of openHAB? if so, were you led to believe the platform would run on a pi1?

Regardless, glad you got your set up running well and solved your problem
to draw a little more attention to the importance of your message, you may want to change the title to not emphasize zigbee as I believe that wasn’t the root of your problem, perhaps something more along the lines of…
openHAB doesn’t run on PI1 very well

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I have changed the title as requested. And yes I am a new user being on the platform for now 6 weeks. So far running on Pi 3 with lcn, onewire bindings. I was trying to extent to extent to zigbee plugs on same Pi 3. no success: as it looks onewire and zigbee coordinator are not compatible- Interfering on serial interface . I didn‘t investigate further but went out for Pi 1 lying around. I installed openhabian on it . This was painfully slow but I thought still manageable.

The finding I made down the road with my Pi 1 is described in my post. And yes I think it should be a clear warning not to use openhabian on Pi 1.

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Thanks Tim and welcome to openHAB!

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I’d like to note that the RPi0 has basically the same specifications as an RPi1. The warning should also extend to them as well.

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I too was hoping to run openHAB on my old Pi B+ and I’m gathering information.

The readme advises at least a Pi 2 but doesn’t clearly stipulate it won’t work at all with an older model.

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I’d like to complain that OH won’t run on my abacus.
There should be a clear warning that advises users not to try to get this setup running.

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