I had a little trouble with the instructions… The line where you run java -jar ConciergeServer.jar seems to never return… A Ctrl-z and bg fixed that (the Ctrl-Z interrupts the process, and the bg puts that process running again in the BackGround).
The install of Java failed, mostly (I think) because Java is already installed… It complained about a ‘certificates’ package, so I tried installing that, and it said it already was installed…
I provide this info not because the problems I had mean it doesn’t work, but I think some of the steps might be unnecessary (hence the errors), and might confuse a total newbie.
On raspian I only needed to do the last 3 steps (that is put a hard coded IP address into /etc/hosts). It worked after that.
I also had the problem where I could not install openjdk (because raspian already had oracle-java8 installed). So i removed the partially installed openjdk.
(I also used systemd services rather than init.d but I think that is an inconsequential difference)
THank you for your post, it really helped me. I couldn’t figure out where vera concierge was coming up with 127.0.0.1
[quote=“STEELR, post:5, topic:198497”]hi,
I have followed the instructions in the post but will have issue trying to connect to the webpage :8989 it just times out. Can anyone help?[/quote]
My initial problem was trying to access the page as HTTP opposed to HTTPS
My current problem is if I manually run the program, I’m able to access the site, but not when using the service. I know the service has to partially be working because if I try to manually run it while the service is running, I get an error regarding the port already being in use.
Is there a way to see the service logs to see where the problem could be?
EDIT:
I got it to work: I was using an existing box that was originally used w/ HA-Bridge, so I skipped the java install. I went back and did all of the listed steps, rebooted, and it looks like everything’s good to go at this point
[quote=“kirbyb, post:2, topic:198497”]I had a little trouble with the instructions… The line where you run java -jar ConciergeServer.jar seems to never return… A Ctrl-z and bg fixed that (the Ctrl-Z interrupts the process, and the bg puts that process running again in the BackGround).
The install of Java failed, mostly (I think) because Java is already installed… It complained about a ‘certificates’ package, so I tried installing that, and it said it already was installed…
I provide this info not because the problems I had mean it doesn’t work, but I think some of the steps might be unnecessary (hence the errors), and might confuse a total newbie.
Kirby[/quote]
Running the command with the “&” at the end will bypass the need to manually put it into the background. Also, I thought java had a command-line option to put it into “daemon” mode (which is the CORRECT way to run it).