Upgrade oh2 to oh3 after bintray is dead

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

My understanding is when Bintray went down we lost a lot of legacy stuff, including anything before OH 2.5. So there really is nothing you can do to get back to 2.4. You’ll either need to upgrade to 2.5.12 or upgrade to 3.x.

But my understanding is you are running from a backup so you already have a working OH 2.4 and you want to upgrade that to 3.1.

That’s a pretty big ask. I have no reason to believe that it will work. I know of no instances where that has been reported to work. You might be able to upgrade first to 2.5 and then to 3.x. I think it might work if you follow Wolfgang_S’s instructions to switch over to the new Jfrog hosting where OH 2.5 is located and then upgrade to 2.5 specifically. But…

@Winsys11

please do not say “you need to configure the do-dad”, or “just add /etc/blah/blah to the jigger file”, I am not capable of interpreting your instructions. I need actual steps to follow. surely thats possible?

If you are really so lost on Linux one wonders why you are running OH on Linux in the first place. You can run OH on Windows which, based on your username, you might be much more comfortable doing. Maybe your time is better spent working there because this too, is a huge ask.

It’s akin to when my elderly dad used to call me and say “I scanned a file, where did it go?” Which machine? What do you mean “scanned”? After about a million questions and about an hour later I might be able to tell him where his file went. You are asking the same thing of us.

Consider this scenario. Think of a person close to you who doesn’t understand computers at all. Now you have to tell that person how to create a pivot table in Excel using nothing but SMS text messages. That’s that you are asking us to do.

We don’t see what you are seeing. We don’t know what you’ve done to that machine. We don’t know the results of commands run.

If you want to stick with Linux and the RPi even though “some things mean nothing to you” I recommend the following course of action.

1. Run sudo openhab-cli backup to create a backup of your OH 2.4 configs. Copy those off the machine.
2. Install a brand new openHABian image configured to install OH 2.5. See openHABian | openHAB for how to configure openHABian to install OH 2.5 that first time.
3. Once installed, copy your 2.4 backup over to the newly configured machine and restore it using openhab-cli restore.
4. Look at the logs for errors and fix what needs fixing.
5. Once you have a working 2.5 instance use openhabian-config and these instructions to upgrade the 2.5 instance to 3.1.
6. Once again look a the logs and fix what needs fixing.

That’s about as close as I can get to instructions you can interpret.