Really stable version of OH to use in this moment and Raspi 4

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hello,

For about two years i use OH.
Now 2.4 but it is for me more experimental installation as stable project. It is a little bit dirty with different “tests”)))
Now i want to install on a new raspi a new clean one and setup only things i need.

My setup consist of:

  • oh cloud
  • google assistant integration
  • Mqtt broker
  • zigbee2mqtt dongle and soft for it
  • zwave dongle and binding for it
  • max! Binding
  • Chromecast binding
  • mysql as persistance
  • Arduino with rf as rf signals receiver
  • broadlink with binding for sending rf and ir signals
  • fritzbox binding
  • fritzbox fr64 binding
  • yamaha binding
  • network binding
  • astro binding
  • expire binding
    And some other

So in this case i have a few questions:

  1. Which version is now stable 2.4 or 2.5 good enought?
  2. Is Raspi 4 (4Gb) supported now enought to have less problems or better old one 3+?
  3. Is SSD have no problems on 4 (or 3+). I have heard about boot problems on 4 with SSD.

Thanks for your advises!

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2.4 is stable
2.5 is still in releases stage but should have a stable release before the end of the year

No difference. The Pi4 is faster.

Correct

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Thanks Vincent!
Is it a software (firmware) problem of booting from SSD, dont u know?
I ask because if i get pi4 now, will i be able to upgrade it to ssd when “ssd boot” update will be ready or it will be hardware modified?

It means that i can install same inage of OH on it?

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No you need a fresh install
Back up your OH config from Pi3 and restore after installing on Pi4

Not sure. Check google

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For a Pi 4 you likely need to connect your Z-Wave & ZigBee USB sticks through a hub to the Pi. Its USB ports have hardware standards issues discovered after release.

I would generally recommend 2.5M4 with plans to move to the 2.5 release at the end of this year. There have been major architectural changes between 2.5M1 & the latest 2.5M4. You should do a fresh install but may be able to import a configuration backup/

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Thanks, Bruce for advice. Will try 2.5m4.

Ohohoh, it looks like pi4 have to many issues(((
This hardware is can not be fixed with update as i understand?

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IT will likely be fixed with a hardware refresh. I think, among other things, it tends to detect devices as USB 3 devices when they are not. The hub is a workaround for that issue.

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I personally have not had very many issues with my Pi4 and it has worked great for my setup.

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I’m running sort of the same stack (zwave, zigbee, Chromecast etc) on my raspi4 with Openhab 2.5m2 and it works really well, no issues since I migrated from my raspi2 for over a month now. Don’t know anything about ssd boot but that’s interesting so gonna Google that;)

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Since you are running a testing version is there any reason you have not upgraded to Milestone 4? Many bugs were fixed between Milestone 2 and 4.

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I’m a bit of a, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it kind of guy;) I thought I was on m2, but apparently still on M1, mainly because I read this issue while I was going to upgrade: https://community.openhab.org/t/m2-realease-rest-api-not-working/80710/10&ved=2ahUKEwiy2t3wotrlAhUOElAKHbCrCcoQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw1b-YuYAGTPgjp0Jn7HwSVQ

No idea if this is fixed in the meanwhile so I just decided to wait for the 2.5 release instead.

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The API docs are working in M4.
I think the location changed after M1. It is under User Interface instead of binding. It might be easiest to uninstall the api docs before upgrading and then install again.

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I have got pi4))) makinf now a new installation of 2.5m4

A question about hub - it must be usb 2.0 or does mot matter, can be also 3.0?

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I only know the forums have mentioned a USB 2.0 hub. I guess a 3.0 one MAY work. That depends on whether it passes a USB 2 device as USB 2 or expects the USB 3 Pi 4 to figure it out.

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Hi, Bruce.

As is already mentioned, i have got pi4 and i have setup arduino and zigbee over usb without any hubs and without problems. Maybe because i have revision 1.1.
Maybe i will got this problems later, so how must this issues looks like - that device is not recognised or anything else?

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My understanding is that the released version was 1.1. 1.0 must have been for pre-release testing.

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Maybe. But if u habe pi4 also i have to know how this usb issues looks like?
I would like know if i have them also.

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My checking indicates it may have something to do with the popular Aeotec Z-Wave USB stick. If you are not using that stick it might not be an issue.