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Title: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: asm7100 on September 12, 2015, 03:05:42 PM

Hi
I hope it ok to write it in here.
I have some questions about HomeGenie.

1. Is there a image for Rasberry PI B+ or BananaPI M1
2. Is it possible to use ESP8266 Modules to connect to HG

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: bkenobi on September 12, 2015, 04:02:09 PM

There is an older image for RPi that you can downloa.   You just need to run the update utility to get up to the current version.  I don't think there is an image for Banana Pi.  Either system can be installed from scratch using the guide in the download section though.

I'm not familiar with that module (I only use X10 currently), but it sounds like one that's been discussed in a number of threads.

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: asm7100 on September 12, 2015, 05:49:51 PM

Thanks which image is best to use for raspberry pi?

ESP8266 Is modules with wifi, and comes in a loot of different modules. ESP01 and ESP12 is the most used.

Here is a good firmware to them https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/wiki/nodemcu_api_en

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: domotica_user on September 12, 2015, 06:25:55 PM

Hi asm7100,

I have Homegenie running on a raspberry. I just followed the (short) instructions on:

http://www.homegenie.it/download.php (http://www.homegenie.it/download.php)

1) Install raspbian image on a sd card (i am assuming you know how to do that?)
2) do a "sudo apt-get update" on the raspberry
3) do a "sudo apt-get install gdebi-core" on the raspberry
4) do a "wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/homegenie/files/homegenie-beta_1.00.r491_all.deb/download (http://sourceforge.net/projects/homegenie/files/homegenie-beta_1.00.r491_all.deb/download)"
5) do a "sudo gdebi homegenie-beta_1.00.r491_all.deb"

Now you have homegenie running on port 80 of your raspberry! That is it! Good luck installing.

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: asm7100 on September 13, 2015, 01:12:41 AM

Thanks :-)

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: bkenobi on September 13, 2015, 06:42:51 AM

Correct.  If you choose to use the older image, you would download it from the same location.  Next, write to an SD card and run on RPi.  Once loaded, access HG via the RPi web address (default port 80) and navigate to the configure->maintenance section to perform an update of the system.  Either way gets you the same end result.

Title: Re: New to the homegenie :-)
Post by: kevin1 on September 14, 2015, 01:03:34 PM

I am using an ESP8266 from Adafruit (only $10 US!)with HomeGenie. 

Few more details here:
http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=927.msg5664#msg5664 (http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=927.msg5664#msg5664)