Install openHAB on Raspberry Pi

Background

This guide will enable you to install openHAB on Raspberry Pi computer.

Steps

1. Install Java if 1.6 or higher is not already installed.

The following will display your current Java version:

java -version 

1. Add the openHAB Bintray Repositories key to the apt-keyring using curl:

curl 'https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=openhab' | sudo apt-key add -

1. Add openHAB apt repository to the apt sources list (Note: the current openhab.list file will be overwritten)

   echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list
   

2. Resynchronize the package index

   sudo apt-get update
   

3. Install the openHAB runtime

   sudo apt-get install openhab-runtime
   

4. If you have more than one OpenHAB binding with a USB device (Z-Wave, RFXCOM, etc), refer to symlinks
5. Start openHAB - manually

6. sudo /etc/init.d/openhab start
   sudo /etc/init.d/openhab status

7. Start openHAB - at system startup

sudo update-rc.d openhab defaults

1. Install the add-ons / bindings as you need them

sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-${addon-type}-${addon-name}

Examples:

sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-http
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-tcp
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-exec
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-ntp
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-bluetooth
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-mqtt
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-networkhealth
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-systeminfo
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-fritzbox
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-weather
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-binding-panasonictv
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-persistence-logging
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-persistence-rrd4j
sudo apt-get install openhab-addon-persistence-mqtt

A list of all available packages can be retrieved with

sudo apt-cache search openhab

Now configure the system