Step by step guide on how to setup OpenHAB 1.7.1 on Ubuntu LTS

l_grave · August 24, 2015, 9:01am

Since I needed to redo my OpenHAB install, I decided to document it using a gist:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/SierraNL/c6cb175eb5cac717d785

NUC_OpenHAB.md

##Introduction
Basicly a step by step plan to install [OpenHAB 1.7.1](www.openhab.org) on a [Intel NUC](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-board-dn2820fykh.html) using the following bindings.
The content is mostly copy&paste from the OpenHAB wiki:
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Linux---OS-X (for basis installation)
- https://community.openhab.org/t/dashboard-ui-suitable-for-tablets/2329 (for the dashboard part)

## Operating System
I used to run OpenHAB 1.x on Windows, because of other services, but Ubuntu should work fine.
I've picked the LTS version for stability.

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It’s a lot of information that is mostly on the wiki. But all in one place and in a logical order.
I’m aware that it is specific for my setup, but why not share it anyway.

watou · August 24, 2015, 10:55am

Great info and thanks for sharing it. Perhaps you could add a link to an examples wiki page so others could more easily find your work, or find/create an appropriate wiki page to copy your gist and refine your instructions? (Just a thought.)

Reading through it, I see you want to enable encryption for mosquitto (and port forward 8883 instead of 1883). Here is the link I used on the Raspberry Pi that probably translates fairly closely to Ubuntu.

l_grave · August 24, 2015, 8:21pm

Thank @watou, I spend my whole evening getting TLS to work on Mosquitto.
It seems to be working now, but I have to check some things before I can add it to the gist.

I’m going to make a link on the wiki, I don’t think it’s a good idea to actually add it to the wiki, since most of the info comes from it and we might end up creating more confusion.

watou · August 24, 2015, 8:53pm

Glad you got TLS working! Your gist will certainly help other Ubuntu users down the road.

l_grave · September 15, 2015, 10:21am

I ended up putting the whole thing on the wiki:

And removed a few parts more specific to my own config.
I’ll try and refine it a bit more.

watou · September 15, 2015, 9:43pm

That’s great to share your setup experience. Thanks (from one user to another)!

ewgor · October 4, 2015, 2:12pm

hi, can somebody please tell how to install OH 1.7.1 on my rasberry? where to find it and how to download it?
thanks

watou · October 4, 2015, 4:04pm

Please see the wiki. I recommend using the “apt-get” approach.

ewgor · October 4, 2015, 5:43pm

Thanks for the answer, Wiki in my opinion is a general guide which suppose that you have to know some other settings that needs to be done but finally this is not so important.
On the end I managed to install it and now is up and running …

l_grave · October 5, 2015, 9:51am

A bit late, but there is a post on the forum linked to an article about installing OpenHAB on a Pi:

ewgor · October 5, 2015, 10:30am

Thanks for the answer, i followed this tutorial here here and i got it working. The question was that if i downloaded the right version because this tutorial shows how to install the 1.7.0 OH version and i wanted the 1.7.1 version and so i replaced in all sentences the 1.7.0 with 1.7.1 like this:

sudo wget https://bintray.com/artifact/download/openhab/bin/distribution-1.7.1-runtime.zip