Do I need all this?

[Pete]

but when I try and run HS3 get this error

Unhandled Exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

Have you installed mono-vbnc?

sudo apt-get install mono-vbnc

as mentioned in post #11 above.

Here only install mono-complete and mono-vbnc on my HS3 Linux computers that run Homeseer 3.

Rewind a bit...this is relating to my base build

1 - install Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit (lite)
2 - create homeseer users via OS
3 - install mono (mono-complete and mono-vbnc)
4 - copy over Homeseer directory (where did you install it?) and set user rights to directory.
5 - configure Homeseer users to match OS users
6 - configure Homeseer (Ubuntu) to connect to all of your hardware (easy peasey stuff).
NOTE here you will only be utilizing your USB to serial Digi devices and no hard RS-232 9 pin interfaces.
7 - as Jon mentions above a rewrite of your txt scripts to vb will need to be done (baby steps wise).

Later autostart Homeseer via initially a cron job then a service.

Note too that failing over to your Windows hard drive will not change any hardware settings.

IE: if you are using ZWave all of the nodes are stored in the firmware and you will be able to read them in to the Homeseer 3 for Linux easily.

[Gogs]

Thanks Pete,

I had only installed mono-complete, stupid me thought complete meant everything!

Running HS3 on XP just now as it's getting dark, will change disks later and try again.

[Pete]

Good news Gordon. Yup Mono-Complete should be everything but it is not.

You want to get in to the habit of saving or archiving your Homeseer directory while HS3 is in off mode. The HS3 base directory right now should be less than 500Mb.

cp -r /path/to/directory /path/to/location/new-name

You can also export your HS3 set up to say a USB stick and then import your HS3 setup up to Linux. Note this should work fine with events and triggers except for your scripts.

Yeah here we had snow in the afternoon and it was mostly overcast all day yesterday. Today is is sunny and crispy outside.

[Gogs]

An Update

Pete,

HS3 is now running on Linux, I think. Have not copied over my xp setup yet. I say I think because I cannot view it using a browser, tried going through my homeseer but it says HS is not running

[Pete]

Homeseer will not automagically start unless you configure it to start on boot.

For now ....

Just ssh to the homeseer directory or use the desktop terminal and type

sudo su

cd /homeseer directory wherever you installed it

./go

Leave the terminal window open.

It will start at port 80 unless you change it.

Install webmin as mentioned above. This will let you manage your new box headless.

The Linux desktop gui doesn't offer anything relating to running Homeseer.

After you install Webmin we will create a cron job to start Homeseer.

Where did you install Homeseer? What directory?

[Gogs]

Just ssh to the homeseer directory or use the desktop terminal and type

sudo su

cd /homeseer directory wherever you installed it

./go

Leave the terminal window open.

It will start at port 80 unless you change it.

Install webmin as mentioned above. This will let you manage your new box headless.

The Linux desktop gui doesn't offer anything relating to running Homeseer.

After you install Webmin we will create a cron job to start Homeseer.

Where did you install Homeseer? What directory?

its installed in a folder called "Homeseer", how original. Although I read in HST's instructions it should be installed in the root directory for the web server to work,but I have no access to the root!

I will do Webmin tomorrow

[Gogs]

At an SSH prompt type the following:

1 - wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w..._1.860_all.deb
2 - sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python
3 - wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/w..._1.860_all.deb

Pete does not work, times out.

[Gogs]

Trying to install webmin as per the sites instructions, all works until I try to download and install then I get this

control@control-TPS01:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:5 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease
Get:6 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release [14.9 kB]
Get:7 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release.gpg [173 B]
Fetched 117 kB in 1s (62.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://download.webmin.com/download/.../sarge/Release Unable to find expected entry 'comtrib/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
control@control-TPS01:~$ sudo apt-get install webmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package webmin

[Gogs]

HS 3 for Linux works perfectly until I copy over the Windows files except for HS3.exe and it's config. then it will not run!

Anyone any ideas?