As a “guest user”? I don’t know what you mean by that. Pay attention to the first posting:
Hi all,
Once again @ThomDietrich for your efforts in making the setup such a breeze!
When I reboot my pi I need to enter the username and password in order for OH2 to start. After a power failure it would be useful if OH2 could start without entering these credentials when the Pi itself boots.
So my two questions are:
- Where do I set it so that there is no bootup password?
- Is this unwise?
Apologies if this was asked elsewhere but I couldn’t find an answer.
Craig
This shouldn’t be necessary at all. Of course you have to enter it when you log in via ssh. But with openhabian (using the apt-get method), openHAB is configured as a service, so will be started automatically during boot.
Do you only need to enter the credentials in case of a power failure (therefore a “hard” crash), or also when you do a controlled shutdown and reboot?
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Hi all,
i tried to set up openHABian several times today, but it doesn´t work. It looks like there is a problem fetching the snapshot files. There is always a 404 error. When opening the URL in a browser the whole path is missing. Is there again a problem with the build?
Hello @ast, this is related to the following change and I just this second did the needed changes to openHABian. Please restart the installation and everything should be fine.
Restart:
sudo mv /boot/config-reinstall.txt /boot/config.txt
sudo reboot
openHAB 2 new apt repository and the single distro refactor
Everyone, another important change to openHAB 2 before it’s final release has happened. For one are packages now hosted by a new more powerful repository service provider and secondly are the packages openhab2-online and openhab2-offline now replaced by a base openhab2 package and a openhab2-addons to install on top. Find more details in the corresponding announcement threads:
Implications for openHABian users
I’ve done the needed changes to the openHABian scripts. From this point on forward openHABian will default to openhab2 (the previously known “openhab2-online” package). An option to easily select the addons package will follow.
Fresh installations: The openhab2 package will be installed on fresh systems. Nothing to pay attention to there.
Existing setups: If you are already using openHABian, just execute sudo openhabian-config, then select “Update” followed by “openHAB 2”. This will transition your setup over from the cloudbees repository to bintray and from openhab2-offline to openhab2. You will be prompted about 1-2 changed files in /var/lib/openhab2/etc. Select “Yes” to have them overwritten. Give openHAB a few minutes to restart, you may have to trigger another restart by typing sudo systemctl restart openhab2.service, after that your system as you know it will be back on track. Remember to backup your configuration.
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Thank you. Not sure how it would all tie in together philosophy wise, but I believe OpenHabian should be promoted by OpenHab as the main install method. Of course, manual installs would be available for the more “advanced” user.
The work you’ve done has saved hundreds, if not thousands, of man-hours for new users. I can only imagine what the percentage is of people who attempt a manual install and give up, swearing off the platform. I can easily see a 50% or greater increase of users based on this service alone.
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That actually fixed my sound issue - thanks!
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Thanks @RHINESEL, always nice to get feedback from you! 
I’ve actually already “sneaked” openHABian into that position by mentioning it here a couple of times 
However, do not forget, that there are many different platforms and operation systems you can run openHAB on. Using openHABian on a Raspberry Pi is only one way and not fitting for everyone. Still feel the same way as you. For newcomers a Raspberry Pi plus openHABian might be the smoothest openHAB experience you can get. Maybe @Kai want’s to suggest that in the big openHAB 2.0 annoucement 
@Dome well, what a coincidence
Yeah, I still need to file a bug report that I cannot get openHABian running on my Mac mini! 
I’ll make sure to mention it - but only if http://docs.openhab.org/installation/openhabian.html is filled with decent content until then 
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Extortion! 
Yeah that’s on my TODO list 
Only debian based systems, sorry. You could install Debian on your mac though 
did a update / upgrade this eve and didnt get the newest with kodi binding that kai mentioned was in the newest release. What do I need to do?
Please first check which build you are on. Compare with the following to know if you are on the latest.
I have just tried to update and get these errors:
2017-01-11 13:05:19.664 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'house.items'
2017-01-11 13:05:20.367 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'rrd4j.persist'
2017-01-11 13:05:20.435 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'mapdb.persist'
2017-01-11 13:05:23.383 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'house.rules'
2017-01-11 13:05:23.828 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'timeField.rules'
2017-01-11 13:05:25.508 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'house.sitemap'
2017-01-11 13:05:27.899 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started dashboard at /start
2017-01-11 13:05:30.063 [WARN ] [url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver] - Error resolving artifact org.openhab.ui:org.openhab.ui.habpanel:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT: [Could not find artifact org.openhab.ui:org.openhab.ui.habpanel:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT]
java.io.IOException: Error resolving artifact org.openhab.ui:org.openhab.ui.habpanel:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT: [Could not find artifact org.openhab.ui:org.openhab.ui.habpanel:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT]
at org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver.resolve(AetherBasedResolver.java:720)[7:org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn:2.5.2]
at org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver.resolve(AetherBasedResolver.java:659)[7:org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn:2.5.2]
at org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver.resolve(AetherBasedResolver.java:600)[7:org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn:2.5.2]
at org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver.resolve(AetherBasedResolver.java:567)[7:org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn:2.5.2]
at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.download.impl.MavenDownloadTask.download(MavenDownloadTask.java:36)[8:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.8]
at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.download.impl.AbstractRetryableDownloadTask.run(AbstractRetryableDownloadTask.java:60)[8:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.8]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)[:1.8.0_111]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)[:1.8.0_111]
Caused by: shaded.org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Error resolving artifact org.openhab.ui:org.openhab.ui.habpanel:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
at shaded.org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:444)
at shaded.org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:246)
at shaded.org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:223)
at shaded.org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveArtifact(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:294)
at org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.internal.AetherBasedResolver.resolve(AetherBasedResolver.java:705)[7:org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn:2.5.2]
... 12 more
2017-01-11 13:05:30.103 [ERROR] [core.karaf.internal.FeatureInstaller] - Failed installing 'openhab-persistence-mapdb, openhab-binding-yahooweather, openhab-persistence-rrd4j, openhab-ui-basic, openhab-misc-restdocs, openhab-misc-openhabcloud, openhab-binding-astro, openhab-ui-habmin, openhab-ui-habpanel, openhab-ui-paper, openhab-binding-zwave': Error
The UI says Please stand by while UIs are being installed. This can take several minutes.
but I’ve waited a while now.
Can anyone help?
I didn’t see this myself, upgrading two systems with different setups but there was another user with the same problem. For a quick solution see:
Remember to make a backup of your configuration and userdata beforehand.
i wont be in front of a computer to access to check until later today, but will do it…is there a possibility of adding a backup / restore feature to openhabian-config? would just add to the great work you’ve already done.
Totally. It would do more or less what you can find behind the link, plus some menu logic to present some hints and give the user a selection of which backup to restore. I’ll just have to find the time for that. Please create an issue referencing your message: https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/issues
Thank you. An install of the addons did the trick.
that too will have to wait until im in front of a computer, cant sign up for a github account on my phone.
Hi @ThomDietrich, I am currently on build #710 (did the repository switch already using openhabian-config “Update & Openhab2” option). Today I wanted to check if there is an update available. According to your link to the Bintray releases this should be the latest release:
2.0.0~20170110001819 (Jan 09, 2017)
My release #710 is this one:
2.0.0~20170108170225 (Jan 08, 2017)
Problem is: I have tried apt-get update && upgrade and also openhabian-config with option “Openhab2”. But neither command got me the desired update. It seems that the update process doesn’t “see” the newer version.
Any ideas?