I converted in May of 2019 from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 18.04 and am very glad that I did. The updates on 7 were painfully slow. I bought a used supermicro Xeon server and installed the system and all the plugin's I normally used. There were two pains in the setup; 1. configuring the serial port for the Blade DSC - IT100 2. Getting speech to work. I got both of them working.
To solve 1 I had to add stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 cs8 -cstopb -parenb to /etc/rc.local file. It has just worked since then.
To solve 2 here is a post on how I fixed - https://forums.homeseer.com/node/1308806
The server is rack mounted with a multi system keyboard/mouse/monitor switch that is in a communications closet. I installed SSH so I could access from normal desktop. I also installed samba to easily move files around and mc which is a terminal based file manager. My system uses an HSTouch system that I created. I maintain this on a virtual windows 7 machine.
If ReactOS gets out of alpha and has better functionality I will convert. I don't expect this to happen for another 1-2 years. Hats off to the developers for a huge undertaking that is starting to bear fruit.
All of my normal events converted and I lost nothing significant in the transfer except having to rewrite scripts/events for speaking. Overall I maintain better connection to all of my tablets running HSTouch now. I have fewer errors after the transfer as well. The system seems more stable. This could be hardware so it could be attributable to that instead of software/system. I should also point out that I have four sub-domains on the network
Just a different perspective. The best part is I can upgrade without a reboot.
Below is my system printout from help
Current Date/Time: 6/15/2019 4:03:03 PM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.531
Linux version: Linux HomeSeer-Server 4.15.0-51-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 14:27:21 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux System Uptime: 14 Day 7 Hours 11 Minutes 22 Seconds
IP Address: 192.168.xxx.xxx
Number of Devices: 478
Number of Events: 120
Available Threads: 799
HSTouch Enabled: True
Event Threads: 3
Event Trigger Eval Queue: 0
Event Trigger Priority Eval Queue: 0
Device Exec Queue: 0
HSTouch Event Queue: 0
Email Send Queue: 0
Enabled Plug-Ins
2.0.65.0: BLDSC
2.0.6.0: BLGarbage
2.0.43.0: BLLAN
3.0.25.0: BLLock
3.0.0.65: EasyTrigger
5.0.0.59: Global Cache Pro
3.0.0.14: NetCAM
3.2.0.1: SqueezeBox
3.0.1.15: weatherXML
3.0.1.252: Z-Wave
To solve 1 I had to add stty -F /dev/ttyS0 9600 cs8 -cstopb -parenb to /etc/rc.local file. It has just worked since then.
To solve 2 here is a post on how I fixed - https://forums.homeseer.com/node/1308806
The server is rack mounted with a multi system keyboard/mouse/monitor switch that is in a communications closet. I installed SSH so I could access from normal desktop. I also installed samba to easily move files around and mc which is a terminal based file manager. My system uses an HSTouch system that I created. I maintain this on a virtual windows 7 machine.
If ReactOS gets out of alpha and has better functionality I will convert. I don't expect this to happen for another 1-2 years. Hats off to the developers for a huge undertaking that is starting to bear fruit.
All of my normal events converted and I lost nothing significant in the transfer except having to rewrite scripts/events for speaking. Overall I maintain better connection to all of my tablets running HSTouch now. I have fewer errors after the transfer as well. The system seems more stable. This could be hardware so it could be attributable to that instead of software/system. I should also point out that I have four sub-domains on the network
Just a different perspective. The best part is I can upgrade without a reboot.
Below is my system printout from help
Current Date/Time: 6/15/2019 4:03:03 PM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.531
Linux version: Linux HomeSeer-Server 4.15.0-51-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 14:27:21 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux System Uptime: 14 Day 7 Hours 11 Minutes 22 Seconds
IP Address: 192.168.xxx.xxx
Number of Devices: 478
Number of Events: 120
Available Threads: 799
HSTouch Enabled: True
Event Threads: 3
Event Trigger Eval Queue: 0
Event Trigger Priority Eval Queue: 0
Device Exec Queue: 0
HSTouch Event Queue: 0
Email Send Queue: 0
Enabled Plug-Ins
2.0.65.0: BLDSC
2.0.6.0: BLGarbage
2.0.43.0: BLLAN
3.0.25.0: BLLock
3.0.0.65: EasyTrigger
5.0.0.59: Global Cache Pro
3.0.0.14: NetCAM
3.2.0.1: SqueezeBox
3.0.1.15: weatherXML
3.0.1.252: Z-Wave
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