Pete your first link near the top pointed to the correct page that says this:
Follow the instruction to add the Mono repository to your system (only add the repository, do not install mono ). If you already have a previous version of mono installed, upgrade it by running sudo apt-get upgrade .
Install HomeGenie Server by entering the following commands:
Indeed but many users have skipped that link, which is easy to miss and as a result end up with a version of Mono at least one or more full releases behind. Believe me, this is happening.
I really simplified the copy/paste instructions so nothing was left in doubt. Normally I’d just do a couple of basic links and leave it to the user to follow from there.
Halr, the upgrade command on buster is what took 3 hours. It was like 20 pages of downloaded files, looking at the file names it looks like this upgrade replaced all 7gb of buster! My dwnld speed was very slow compared to most people; we live in the middle of nowhere; router showed it as avg about 1.5mb/s which is probably accurate. Your speed on spectrum or equiv is probably 100x faster. Why it took so long.
Just finished loading the mono repository and in middle of loading HG finally… I too am following the HG instructions (https://genielabs.github.io/HomeGenie/#/get_started) so see it should be where you said but not installed enough to see yet.
I don’t think you will find it after the install. At first I thought PI did not have access to it so I logged in as root and still cannot see it anywhere…
root@raspberrypi:/home# pwd
/home
root@raspberrypi:/home# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 03:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Aug 20 03:47 …
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Dec 1 09:56 pi
root@raspberrypi:/home#
under PI, I simply see this:
root@raspberrypi:/home# cd pi
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# ls -la
total 8036
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Dec 1 09:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 20 03:31 …
-rw------- 1 pi pi 845 Dec 1 10:19 .bash_history
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 220 Aug 20 03:31 .bash_logout
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 3523 Aug 20 03:31 .bashrc
drwx------ 3 pi pi 4096 Dec 1 08:44 .gnupg
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 8193754 Sep 10 02:43 homegenie_1.3-stable.19_all.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 807 Aug 20 03:31 .profile
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 165 Dec 1 09:56 .wget-hsts
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi#
So their is no homegenie directory created like it did in a windows install. Of course maybe this is the difference between raspberry lite versus desktop…
I use a free program called WinSCP to see all the directories in easy to read fashion. Mine just finished installing HG so I will look and tell you where it is…\
1.Links have been updated in my original installation instructions to reflect HG 1.3 Stable v19
All system files can be found at /usr/local/bin/homegenie after installation.
I’ve no control over slow download speeds, faulty SD cards or versions of Raspberry Pi boards used. I did recommend using a RPI3+b for stable operation. I did highlight downloading the Raspberry PI OS Lite so there’s no way a full desktop version could appear after an update.
I think I provided enough instructions for even the most basic user to get HG up and running on the Raspberry Pi/
Yes you did! I just confirmed operations on my RP4 with this setup using HG and the X10 module with a CM19A transciever. Light on/off operational! Thanks for the explanations.
As for confusion, the original link you pointed to but do not maintain is wrong when it states for the raspberry PI installation that the home will be home/homegenie. It should be changed to /usr/local/bin where indeed everything exists! Thanks again!
Time to reopen this: my ZW pi stopped communicating on network sometime between 5pm yesterday and 10am this morning. Ping could not find it. I assume it died between 6am and 10am today as HG DID disarm the alarm. HG just keeps posting ‘event stream disconnected.’ Green lite solid on (normal) on the pi.
Cycled power to it to get it back. Now HG again has lost names on ALL x10 sensors, not just security modules. OpenWeather lost all its settings and it is back to default UK location, no key. e-mail tester program fails with ‘missing email address.’ HG email account back empty. Guess only my groups remained unchanged.
Thankfully a restore brought everything back.
So I guess this proves my old SD system was perfectly fine as this new HG only card looses all the HG data also.
Since others do not seem to have this issue of loosing all the customer data in HG, perhaps HG has grown to the point of requiring that fancier pi and the zero W is just too weak a performer? I wonder if anyone else is still using a model ZERO W?
I only had this issue when I first started playing with HG. I suspect it was due to the cheap SD 4 gig card I was using at the time. I have no idea what class it was but suspect it was slower then a class 6 it had no markings indicating the class. Moving to a larger faster SD card has in any case stopped me from experiacing this issue.
Resurrecting this with a newly received Pi4… It would NOT read my ZERO w Pi so I had to burn a new raw buster 8-20-2020 SD card. It fails on updating with the first line of mono code from Pete 11/30 how to install mono:
Failure is:
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo apt install apt-transport-https dirmngr gnupg ca-certificates
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $
Is this important? I plan to just keep going down Pete’s list and see if HG gets installed and runs…
Further, since first line of upgrade is wrong with “deb,” nothing else works as expected.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo apt-get update
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ sudo gdebi homegenie_1.3-stable.19_all.deb
sudo: gdebi: command not found
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $
So using chown and changing ownership from root to pi, I could not delete the offending etc/file but I could mofify it to be empty - that worked and allowed upgrade and update to work.
Ok down thru to LAST line of installing hg: sudo gdebi homegenie_1.3-stable.19_all.deb
HomeGenie - open source, programmable, home automation server for smart connected devices and applications.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:Y
/usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
c = findall("[(/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
pi@raspberrypi4:~ $ …
INTERESTING! Pi4 distinguishies between cap and non caps on the y/n answer! Resending the commmand and using lower case y let it installl… no clue it if works yet tho as out of time today
Well, pi4 installs and indeed runs much much faster than the zero w! HG restore file in zero takes 3-4-5 minutes to restore; here it took maybe 5 seconds.
