# Armbian

# What is Armbian?

Armbian is a base operating system platform for single board computers.

  • comes in desktop, minimal or server variant,
  • has clean and highly optimised user space,
  • is Ubuntu and Debian compatible,
  • is supported with vibrant community,
  • comes with a powerful SDK which allows reproduction and customisation,
  • supports many 3rd party wireless drivers with advanced functionalities,
  • supports Docker, disk encryption, Wireguard VPN any many other features.

OpenHab will run on any Armbian supported hardware but it is recommended to choose boards that have at least:

  • 512 Kb of memory (on minimal or server image)
  • eMMC or a quality SD card
  • 4 core
  • wired networking

Armbian

# Supported images

You can download and use server, desktop or minimal. If you choose a minimal image, you need to install armbian-config first.

# Setup

First Steps:

  1. Prepare Armbian as usual - login as root / 1234, change root password, create username. You don't need to perform any other steps.

  2. Update

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
  1. Run armbian-config
sudo armbian-config

Armbian config System and 3rd party software Softy

Select OpenHAB with SPACE and press ENTER

Openhab

Wait 5 to 10 minutes depending on your hardware. During this time you can leave armbian-config and check if installation was succesfull by checking what openhab is doing on the system:

sudo htop -u openhab

Observe activities with htop

If you don't see any openhab activities, something went wrong.

# Help

The very active openHAB Community Forum provides many more details and hints. If you run into any problems, use the search function or open a new thread with your detailed question.

In case you run into a problem that is board hardware related, please use Armbian Community forums.