Hi, I have played around with openHAB2 on Windows for a while but I have a RPi2 to be used and I would like to take the step. How can I install the latest deb snapshot as here: https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB-Distribution/ ? How can I then upgrade without loosing configuration?

See http://docs.openhab.org/tutorials/demo.html Dropping a new updated snapshot on top of your existing OH 2 install should not overwrite your configuration, unless you have edited a core file like start scripts or the like.

Thanks @rlkoshak , yes I doing that on Windows. But I thought the deb-file had other things such as creating service. Isn’t that the case?

If you want the nightly snapshots you have to do a manual install. The apt-get install only has the last release which was Beta 3 from about two months ago. If you do an apt-get install, it will probably set up the user and permissions and set it up to run as a service for you. But updating will no…

Hi, In case you do wish to go down the manual install path to get the latest snapshots, I’d suggest creating a backup of your Windows OpenHAB install directory (especially openhab/conf) and looking at makeHAB to move across to Raspbian in a RPi2: [image] GitHub - xsnrg/OpenHAB2-tools:…

FYI There are also two apt repos hosting snapshot - not nightly - builds. [image] OH2 on RPi3 Runtime I’ll try to clarify things: According to my understanding the first stable release will be 2.0.0 - without any beta in the version number. Any beta release is…

@theo Thanks for the information on how to update to the latest snapshoot using atp-get I changed as, you said, my atp sources list with the following ulr. deb https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB-Distribution/ws/distributions/openhab-offline/target/apt-repo/ / And when running sudo atp-…

@Jaghova check this topic: [image] Installing Extensions fails with "org.osgi.service.resolver .ResolutionException" Runtime The version of the SNAPSHOT packages is always 2.0.0~SNAPSHOT. I think “apt-get upgrade” only compares the version strings to determine …

Should be possible to see it snapshot versions being installed by using Karaf console and “list” command; such as this when using Beta 3. In case of snapshot I guess you would see something like 2.0.0.< such as: 2.0.0.201607140102 instead of 2.0.0.b3 161 | Active | 90 | 2.0.0.b3 | …

openHAB2 snapshot on Raspberry

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime

theo (theo) July 15, 2016, 6:25pm 9

@Jaghova check this topic: