Unable to start Pax Web server

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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: Rasp3b
    • OS: OH3
      Hello dear community,

I’ve been using OpenHub for a few weeks now and I’m thrilled. When I thought that I was at least somewhat familiar with my requirements, today the total crash happens.

I started my Rasp and according to the log, the server can not start. I think, if I interpret this correctly, that the IP address is already taken. With such problems, I realize how much I’m still at the beginning. I hope someone can help me or give me a starting point.

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Looks like something else already uses port 8080.

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According to CMD netstat -ano the 8080 is not used, not even when I start the Rasp / Openhab. I’m afraid I would have to reinstall OH and set it up. That’s not so bad, but if I make the mistake again, I would want to know what the problem was. I only opened a server yesterday via ESP but it only runs Dash on it with port 80.

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the port on that address is already in use.

You can check if an other service is running on that port by running

sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 8080

in a linux shell on your Pi.
This should show the pid ( process id ) and program that is using that port.

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Yes! You are right.

I probably never restarted the Rasp after the camera binding. I’ll try to uninstall it.

admin@growbox:~ $ sudo netstat -tulpn | grep 8080
[sudo] password for admin:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      496/motion
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I think motion is not the camera binding at least not the ipcam binding.
I would expect ports opened by bindings to be shown as java program/process ( instead of motion ).
So I assume you have a different program motion running on that port.

In case both instances ( motion; OH (java ) ) are required to run on the same host one of the services need to run on a different port. Normally that can be configured.

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It was IP Camera Server called motion. I was able to change the port in the configuration file and it worked. Thanks for the quick answers! Day saved.

For posterity, a screenshot of the setting.

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