Complete beginners question re raspberry pi installation

[tonynelson]

Hi,

Sorry for the simplicity of this question.  I have now tried and failed 5 or 6 times to install HomeGenie on my Raspberry Pi and I am looking for a very basic bullet-point tutorial on how to do it.

I've tried two major approaches, with minor variations of each:

Approach 1:
* Install HomeGenie 1.00 beta rev. 336 image directly on a 4GB SD Card.
* I've done this via the command line and using two different GUI tools
* The Pi boots but only to the command line prompt and when I explore the directory structure I see nothing suggesting HomeGenie is installed.  I also tried booting to the desktop, and again nothing was visible.
* The resulting SD card has two partitions.  The first is called "boot".  The second is apparently empty and cannot be mounted using OSX's Disk Utility.

Approach 2:
* Install HomeGenie 1.00 beta rev. 340 using gdebi on top of the image produced by Attempt 1
* I tried to do this but couldn't find the right place to put the .deb file so it could be found by the gdebi command. 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.  I'm very excited to get going on my home automation project.

[bkenobi]

The install directory on the RPi image used to be located in /home/pi/HomeGenie when the kernel was Raspian.  The current versions are located in /user/local/bin/home genie and the current kernel is Debian.

[tonynelson]

Hi all,

My problem is solved and I thought I'd post back an update in case any other noobs are having the same issue.

In short, my only issue was that I didn't know what to expect.  I thought I had to go into the Pi and configure the system but couldn't find anyway to do that.  The answer is, of course, that I configure the system via the client and/or the web interface from a separate device.  So my system was fully up and running, but I just didn't know 

Thanks to bkenobi for the helpful and prompt response.