Hey everyone!
openHABian is slowly coming to other platforms and we decided to switch from pi:raspberry or ubuntu:ubuntu to one openHABian wide username+password combination. It’s your time to vote
Hello, i installed openhab2 on raspberry for a second time. But on the new installation the config with openhabian-config faild. It looks like testmassages, i these:
~$ sudo openhabian-config
[sudo] password for pi:
[openHABian] Checking for root privileges… OK
[openHABian] Loading configuration file ‘/etc/openhabian.conf’… OK
Bye Bye!
Hello @nitram_reniek, I’ve seen this error just a few days ago. I have no clue why you saw it but that must have been linked to your SSH client. Would you mind telling me which this was? Anyhow, the message after that should include a fix for this problem
After making the Raspberry Pi a stable and versatile platform for openHAB, we went ahead with the aim of a hassle-free openHAB setup. openHABian v1.1 is the first release to officially support a wider range of Debian/Ubuntu based systems. With version 1.1 we now also provide a Pine A64 ready to run SD card image!
A list of all git commits can be found here. Here’s the heavy stuff:
Includes all previously announced changes for the openHAB 2.0 final release
The build tool chain for the RPi image was removed as a fixed part and will be temporarily created
A build process for the Pine A64 platform was added next to the RPi build. This brought A LOT of small changes and improvements to both images as well as to the general setup process, which I can not simply list
All openhabian-config menu options are now considering certain platform restrictions and additionally needed installation steps. Menu entried, which are hardware specific, are no accessible on other platforms
A configuration file for openHABian was added under /etc/openhabian.conf
The end users linux username is not hardcoded as before but can now differ between systems and will be stored in the config file. For the RPi and Pine64 images this will be done automatically, a manually installed system will prompt for a username on first execution of openhabian-config
The way timezone and locale are set should now comply with the normal way of changing these. An option to change them inside the openHABian configuration tool will come soon, check the docs article till then
Oracle Java was replaced by the Zulu Embedded Java runtime (which is in general the better choice for openHAB and by the way made the openHABian installation on the RPi a whole lot easier and also a bit faster)
The Zulu installation includes the Charts widget bug fix
The login screen FireMotD received a few tweaks to support the Pine A64
Many small improvements and fixes
Some Stats: The openHABianPi image version 1.0 released 2016-12-16 was downloaded 10,306 times. The openHABian config tool is in average installed or updated 160 times per day.
Poll Results
The default username and password combination for SSH and Samba has changed to openhabian:openhabian. A big shoutout to everyone taking part in the poll above, also the ones voting for “smart:home”. Honestly also my personal favorite but the majority has spoken We should do this more often!
Updating
If you are already running openHABian on your system, just select the “Update” menu entry behind sudo openhabian-config, then execute “Upgrade System” and “Basic Setup” - That should be all.
You do not need to switch over to Zulu, if you are currently using Oracle Java. If you want to switch, please remove Oracle Java before doing so. You will have to do so manually:
A question for migrating to Zulu: I had to install the JCE 8 on my RPi installation, because the KM200 binding needs unlimited encryption. Is it good for me to move to Zulu?
Hello ThomDietrich,
i use putty to connect the Raspi, i have two of them. The older one has no problem, the new i installed yesterday, has the the problem. I used the openhabian image :openhabian-ua-netinst-20161216-git52cc420.img, i saw now there is a new one, can i use update, or should i better reinstall with the new Image ? At this point its no problem.
I like this projekt ! Its very usefull for my new hobby
I did a fresh download and copy to the sd-card and got the same error again. And sd-card is empty.
When I download openhabian-ua-netinst-20161216-git52cc420.img and copy this file to the sd-card.
Everything is fine and I can see the content of the sd-card in my explorer.
I’ve tested the image before uploading yesterday… Maybe there was a transfer error!? I’m not in my apartment right now but I’ll try to build a new image and upload in a few minutes…
Have you updated to the latest openhabian version? There was a change of the repo last week. It’s not Bintray anymore. Maybe your apt-get still tries to get the build from bintray?
Maybe I got a little bit confused because of the expression “nightly builds”.
Openhabian only uses the stable version at the moment. And the stable version is still hosted on Bintray. Only the unstable version (nightly build, snaphsot version, however it is called…) is now hosted elswere, see here:
You can’t switch from stable to snapshot within openhabian. I think ThomDietrich wants to add this in the future, but atm this isn’t possible.