After making the Raspberry Pi a stable and versatile platform for openHAB, we went ahead with the aim of a hassle-free openHAB setup. openHABian v1.1 is the first release to officially support a wider range of Debian/Ubuntu based systems. With version 1.1 we now also provide a Pine A64 ready to run SD card image!
All you need to know about openHABian in general can now be found in the official documentation article, updated regularly: http://docs.openhab.org/installation/openhabian.html
Changes since v1.0
A list of all git commits can be found here. Here's the heavy stuff:
- Includes all previously announced changes for the openHAB 2.0 final release
- The build tool chain for the RPi image was removed as a fixed part and will be temporarily created
- A build process for the Pine A64 platform was added next to the RPi build. This brought A LOT of small changes and improvements to both images as well as to the general setup process, which I can not simply list 😅
- All
openhabian-configmenu options are now considering certain platform restrictions and additionally needed installation steps. Menu entried, which are hardware specific, are no accessible on other platforms - A configuration file for openHABian was added under
/etc/openhabian.conf - The end users linux username is not hardcoded as before but can now differ between systems and will be stored in the config file. For the RPi and Pine64 images this will be done automatically, a manually installed system will prompt for a username on first execution of
openhabian-config - The default username and password combination has changed to
openhabian:openhabian - The way timezone and locale are set should now comply with the normal way of changing these. An option to change them inside the openHABian configuration tool will come soon, check the docs article till then
- Oracle Java was replaced by the Zulu Embedded Java runtime (which is in general the better choice for openHAB and by the way made the openHABian installation on the RPi a whole lot easier and also a bit faster)
- The Zulu installation includes the Charts widget bug fix
- The login screen FireMotD received a few tweaks to support the Pine A64
- Many small improvements and fixes
Updating
If you are already running openHABian on your system, just select the "Update" menu entry behind sudo openhabian-config, then execute "Upgrade System" and "Basic Setup" - That should be all.
You do not need to switch over to Zulu, if you are currently using Oracle Java. If you want to switch, please remove Oracle Java before doing so. You will have to do so manually:
sudo apt purge oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-jdk
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list
Fresh Setup
Setting up your openHABian system should be as hassle-free as always. Please visit the documentation to find all you need to know:
http://docs.openhab.org/installation/openhabian.html
Enjoy and Happy Hacking!!