HS3 Standard on RPI3

[Salvin49]

I have purchased a Homeseer Smartstick+ and a raspberry pi 3 and I would like to set up a standard edition of HS3 to not be limited to 3 plug ins. Would anyone be able to line me out in a simple step process to install HS3 on my Pi?

[aptalca]

specifically this post is how I did it: https://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?p=1280307

[Salvin49]

Thank you for the response. I have read a lot of the different threads on the install but the thing that is missing from the explanation appears to be something that could be common knowledge for most people. That is how to get the HS3 tar file onto the pi and untar it. Do I simply drag and drop onto and SD card? Is there a "sudo apt-get" command to get the tar file onto the pi?

[zwolfpack]

You should be able to use the Linux command wget. cd to a directory that you can write to (/tmp for example), then

wget http://www.homeseer.com/blahblahblah.zip

[Kerat]

First step is to install raspbian Jessie on the raspberry pi. have you done that yet? if not you can download the NOOB distribution here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. there are two primary distributions Pixel (has a graphic user interface), and lite (command line interface only). if you are running windows you can use (7zip) to decompress the zip file. you should get a big .img file. this is the base image of the raspbian operating system. Insert your sd card into your computer and use another program (win32diskimager) to write the img file to the SD card. once complete, properly eject your SD card and put it in your RPI. connect a monitor USB keyboard/mouse power on your RPI. you will need to go through the initial setup process of Raspbian before you can continue to install HS3 for linux prereqs and HS3.

[Salvin49]

Thank you for the responses. I plan to move forward with this installation attempt sometime in the next few days. Will update on my success or issues.

[Salvin49]

I went ahead and purchased the HS3 standard software to ensure that I make this work. I still dont quite understand how I will install the HS3 tar file specifically. I see your response to use commands

wget. cd to choose a directory but what directory should I choose and what would the command lines look like? I know this looks helpless, I am trying to learn linux as I go.

[Salvin49]

Ended up deciding to do a windows install on a laptop since that is what I am most familiar with.