[SOLVED] Amazon Echo Control Binding

Add-ons Bindings
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Hello there,

just upgraded to OH 2.3 RC1 a few days ago.
It is working very well … but, if I got it right, there should be the new Amazon Echo Control Binding available.
But this binding doesn´t appear in my Binding list.
What can be wrong? Sure, I can add the binding file manually, but this wouldn´t be the correct way.
Any ideas?

Sebastian

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It’s a binding from the market place
You first need to enable the market place
PaperUI/Addons/Misc/Eclipse IoT Market - Install
Go back to Bindings and refresh with the round arrow thing at the top right
Then you should be able to see the amazon echo binding

3

Thanks,
that was the hint.

Binding is installed now. But still not working. I will follow this up in the binding thread.
Thanks for your help.

4

You should move from RC1 to the Release.

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… and then the binding is available without the marketplace :grinning:

6

You should move from RC1 to the Release.

Thanks for the hint. I tried, but with
apt-get update / upgrade

it doesn´t install to the newest version. The system always tell me, it is already the newest version installed.
If I change manually to the specified version, I will get not info about newer version. What might be the correct solution for that?

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Check your openhab2.list:

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sebzim@openHAB:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab2.list
deb https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 testing main

Look good. But there is no update available.

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Nope. You are on the testing branch. You need to switch to stable for the 2.3 release or unstable for 2.4 snapshot.

10

You are right. But this doen´t change anything.
I tried also with stable and also again with update / upgrade.
No newer version available.

11

Sorry, out of ideas, I don’t use the apt repository …

12

Try

sudo apt-cache madison openhab2

What do you get?

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  openhab2 |    2.3.0-1 | https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2/ stable/main armhf Packages                                                                                                                     
  openhab2 |    2.2.0-1 | https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2/ stable/main armhf Packages                                                                                                                     
  openhab2 |    2.1.0-1 | https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2/ stable/main armhf Packages                                                                                                                     
  openhab2 |    2.0.0-1 | https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2/ stable/main armhf Packages
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Ok so you are on the last stable release and it still doesn’t work.
Are you willing to try SNAPSHOT

echo 'deb https://openhab.jfrog.io/openhab/openhab-linuxpkg unstable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab2.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openhab2
sudo apt-get install openhab2-addons
15

Hmm.
I want to avoid the snapshot.
Did this during the last month and I crashed my complete install in total 3 times with broken snapshots. No recovery was possible.
So I would prefer to stay with stable versions…

16

Did you try?

sudo apt-get --reinstall openhab2
sudo apt-get --reinstall openhab2-addons

17

also not working.
I tried this one

sudo apt-get install openhab2=2.3.0-1

He told me, I was doing an downgrade…
We will see, how it work. It is now installing…

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Downgrading to 2.3.0-1??
You must have been on some snapshot

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Sure?
It was coming from here

openhab2 | 2.3.0-1 | https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2/ stable/main armhf Packages

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It is running.
Also the Echo binding works now.
Thanks for help.