New to the forum, Linux noob and marveling at this wonderful invention called openHABian. I am planning to buy a Raspberry 3 with a Razberry zwave controller. What I understood from the lengthy testing done by @ThomDietrich and @palatia this should be working now as long as you select all the ‘disable’ buttons in the small config menu related to the serial controller.
Another question I had is related to the Homekit add-on that is present in the openHAB 2 latest build. I read that openHABian is basically and exact implementation of OH2 so can I assume that the Homekit add-on is included in openHABian or could be added?
Many thanksfor answering my questions. Of course I am not just here to “take” but also would like to contribute. Therefore, if any testing with my described set-up is necessary in the future, please let me know!
I did… have been reading this forum for some evenings now. I could find the answer to the question regarding openHABian + Razberry in the changelogs (yes it works now), but nothing on Homekit unfortunately. I just would like to be sure before I spend time and money on this solution.
Hey Many, the answer was aimed at nena85. I did actually not see your message yet.
openHABian is basically setting up the whole Raspberry Pi for you, so you don’t have to do that. openHAB 2 is installed but not in any way modified. At the end of the installation you will find an openHAB system showing the initial screen just as if you installed it yourself.
So I hope that made clear that you do not have to worry. Good luck with your adventures into openHAB(ian)!
Regarding your contribution, that is always very much welcomed in the form of any kind of feedback like “this menu entry text is misleading” or “I have just implemented a brand new optional component, here you go”. ;D
Thanks @ThomDietrich for the great work - I will post some experiences once I get going with the setup. Using the RPI3, I will probably boot from a USB drive to prevent the wearing issue reported on SD cards. Will let all know if/how this works.
While the first is of course not a bad idea the second is not a big issue really. If it were, the Raspberry Pi in the 5th Generation would have a better option, don’t you think?
I’m a RPi user of the first hour (had to re-solder the ethernet chip of one of the first prototypes which was a production error) and I’ve lost two SD cards in all that time. Instead of wasting money and flexibility, invest the few minutes to set up a backup
Here you can find the PR and the preview (Warning: The article is not finished). If you want, please have a first look and tell me about what you are missing, what’s wrong or how you want to help I’m planning to finish the article tomorrow evening.
Very nicely written sir! Only thing I might add is how to access the network shares. I did from my windows machine and had to map the network drives, which I’m quite sure you are familiar with. Otherwise, awesome!
Hi,
I have been using OH2 on a windows PC for a while. I decided to give the Pi a go.
I have a RPi 3 and downloaded the image.
On the first boot, I changed the Pi password, machine name etc. I received the OH2 paper interface and added a couple of bindings ie MQTT, weather etc. Basically quite a few changes.
When I went to look at the log files to see how it was going, under “openHAB-userdata”, there is only a Log folder not a Logs folder. The log folder does not have any log files. Empty of all files.
Because of all the changes, I thought I might have buggered something in relation the creation and storage of the log files.
I performed a fresh image, can see the Paper interface. However there is only the Log folder not Logs folder and of course no log files.
Ideas?
Thanks,
Neil.
One thing you’ll have to look out for: Different sizes of the old and new SD card could be a problem. That is a bigger issue if the new one is smaller, which I do not expect. There are multiple solutions out there, good luck!
haha i know to change the sd-card from one hardware to another…i mean how can i handle to move the whole image or how can i create an image of the existing openhab2 to move it from 16GB to 8GB
Edit: Can i just add a new file with myopenhabimg.img and then read from win32diskimager?
Edit2: Is a class 4 sd-card enough or should i be a class 10?