Domoticz Linux [UPDATED] Download
Gunvor Nazarian
Just point your browser to the IP address of your Linux system, and use the port specified during the installation script.
For example: :8080.
From 2023.1 Stable: By default Domoticz is protected by a username (admin) and password (domoticz).
To let Domoticz start automatically when the system boots (which is probably the case, as most people run it on a headless server), run the commands below, (You want to end up in /home/YOURUSERNAME/domoticz/)
Always create a backup of your Domoticz environment before updating! For Beta updates an automatic backup of the complete domoticz environment is created in domoticz/backups/domoticz_backup_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.tar.gz by the ./updatebeta script, also when you use the GUI update function.
Attention: when you use Monit, be sure to disable it before doing the update process, otherwise after you have stopped Domoticz by hand yourself, it will get restarted automatically by Monit within a few minutes (because that is what is Monit should do normally).
Stopping Monit can be done by sudo /etc/init.d/monit stop and after updating it can be started again with sudo /etc/init.d/monit start.
You could also use this command: make && sudo /etc/init.d/domoticz.sh start && sudo /etc/init.d/monit start to update, start Domoticz & start Monit when updating is done.
Software crashes, it's a fact of life. Luckily there are a number of ways to keep an eye on Domoticz, and automaticallty restart it if it crashes. The following page gives instructions Monitoring domoticz
The problem is that at installation domoticz installs the scripts in the first location, but we add -userdata /config when running domoticz and that moves the scripts folder to /config, but the runtime folder doesn't get moved.
I copied the dzvents from the windows install and fixed the permissions, seems to work fine for most things BUT I if I try to update a virtual temp sensor with a script I get reboots every minute - this can't be replicated by others on the domoticz forum, so can only assume it's something weird with the container...
Domoticz is a frustrating beast. On one had the development seems patchy and the forums are not very responsive to questions or issues. On the other hand it seems to be the easiest and most flexible open source home automation option, I have tried HASS, OpenHAB and a anything else I could find to run in a docker, and domoticz is still the best choice for me.
I have told myself a couple of times that I would move to another system when I couldn't get help on the forum, but I have managed to fix the problem eventually. I am going to give a Smartthing hub a go soon, but I don't think it will have the scripting flexibility of domoticz, I have a number of things scripted depending on house occupancy, temps, etc. I don't think anyone has managed to get domoticz and smartthings to work together, but it would be nice to just use the scripting from domoticz and hand off the basic stuff to a hardware device.
I would like to stick to a container, as it uses less system resources, but stability is causing me issues, just trying to work out if this is due to the container, domoticz (maybe the beta) or I have a corruption in my database. Also considering going to a pi, now that my automation scripts are working nicely I need to keep it stable to keep the WAF and stop the lights, etc being manually turned off :).
I need to install a python plugin in domoticz but I need to install both "python3-httplib2" and "git" to be able to run it. Is this possible someway using the docker? I tried opening the console but could not use apt-get inside the docker to install the required packages.
Yesterday i moved my domoticz setup from my rpi to my unraid server and everything went well, but i have one problem. I use controlicz to connect google assistant to domoticz and it requires an ssl connection. To enable ssl in domoticz you need to edit domoticz.sh but i cant find that file in the docker. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
So now that we have Linux running on the board, and after login again as the new user, we can follow the instructions for Raspberry Pi board and other ARM boards to install domoticz with a single command line that works on systems running Debian/Ubuntu: