Fresh Install - Instructions Tutorials ?

[Schroeder13]

So I have HS3 installed on a Pi right now that I installed myself a couple years ago. It has been running fine but I have been thinking about upgrading (own the software). The last time I did it I could never get the auto-start to ever work and anytime the power went out I had to manually start everything back up.

Seeing if anyone has a location to point me to to read up on the steps for a clean install. I would completely wipe the current system and just start over since I have a better idea of what I want this time around for automation and such that I never took the time to setup with HS3.

I am fairly rusty when it comes to Linux as well but I will dig in to read up on it as I go down this path.

[Eman]

HOMESEER _ LINUX INSTALL

# | apt-get -y install mono-devel mono-vbnc flite chromium-browser aha ffmpeg alsa-base alsa-utils
# | apt-get -y remove brltty

# | wget https://homeseer.com/updates4/linux_4_2_5_0.tar.gz -O homeseer.tar.gz


/usr/local/

# | sudo tar xvzf homeseer.tar.gz -C /usr/local


AUTO STRAT (HOMESEER-LINUX)

# | sudo nano homeseer.service

Insert... |

[Unit]
Description=HomeSeer Home Automation
Documentation=https://homeseer.com/support-home/
After=network-online.target remote-fs.target time-sync.target
Before=multi-user.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/HomeSeer
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono HSConsole.exe --log
SyslogIdentifier=HSConsole
StandardOutput=null
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=30
KillMode=none
TimeoutStopSec=300
ExecStop=/usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then

# | sudo systemctl daemon-reload



EDITING THE STOP SCRIPT

# | sudo nano /usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop

Insert... |

#!/bin/bash
# hsstop.sh - stop the HS application
# supports: systemd service shutdown

# import login credentials used to login to web server
# these are ignored if password not required
inifile=$(dirname $0)/Config/$(basename $0 .sh).ini
login=
test -r $inifile && . $inifile

# extract web server port from settings.ini
hsroot=$(dirname $0) # where this script lives
webport=$(awk -F= '\
{
gsub("\015", "") # remove CR character
if ($1 == "gWebSvrPort") print $2
}
' $hsroot/Config/settings.ini)

# send application shutdown command
for i in $(seq 1 5)
do
curl -f -s -o /dev/null ${login:+-u} $login --data 'ConfirmShutdownhs=Yes' "http://localhost:$webport/LinuxTools"
rc=$?
test $rc -eq 0 && break
curl -f -s -o /dev/null ${login:+-u} $login --data 'action=shutdown_hs' "http://localhost:$webport/system.html"
rc=$?
test $rc -eq 0 && break
sleep 2
done

killmain()
{
test -n "$MAINPID" && kill -0 $MAINPID && kill $MAINPID
}

trap killmain EXIT

# if curl cmd unsuccessful, terminate main process
test $rc -ne 0 && killmain

# wait until all HomeSeer mono processes terminate, with timeout
maxwait=300
polltime=5
mono=$(which mono) || exit
for (( t=0; t<$maxwait; t+=$polltime ))
do
pgrep -afi $mono.'*'\(HSConsole\|HSPI_\) || break
sleep $polltime
done

THEN MAKE IT EXECUTABLE... |

# | sudo chmod +x /usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop.sh




Note : Credits go out to zwolfpack and other helpful board members who have provided those scripts over time




Eman.

[Jamr]

I got this after the executable command.

pi@PI4HS4:~$ cd /usr/local
pi@PI4HS4:/usr/local$ sudo nano homeseer.service
[sudo] password for pi:
pi@PI4HS4:/usr/local$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
pi@PI4HS4:/usr/local$ sudo nano /usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop
pi@PI4HS4:/usr/local$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop.sh
chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/HomeSeer/hsstop.sh': No such file or directory
pi@PI4HS4:/usr/local$

Looks like something did not save correctly?

[heatvent]

I am a little confused with the instructions...

Where should the homeseer.service file be placed?

Do you also need to do the following:

sudo systemctrl enable homeseer.service

Thanks!