openhab Get Snapshot

Shell-scripts to update to a snapshot-build

Introduction

If you are experimenting with the latest openHAB-snapshots, it can be quit annoying to download all nightly-packages, extract them, update all files and addons and copy/replace the configuration files, every time.

To automate this process there are two shell-scripts for Linux available.

Script 1

the script openhab_get_snapshot.sh is a quick-and-dirty-script to download a new openHAB Snapshot to a new folder.

Usage is openhab_get_snapshot.sh nnn , where nnn is the Snapshot-Number

Within the Script there is only one variable to set:

version is the actual Snapshot-Version (with a dash at the end) and has to be updated, if the Version number changes.

This is used to build the name of the subdirectory, to which openHAB will be downloaded.

If unchanged, the script will create a subdirectory under /srv/openhab/ with the name versionnnn (e.g. 1.3.0-461), then download all needed packages to another subdirectory zips/, unzip the packages, move addons and link configurations/, etc/ and webapps/images/ to /srv/openhab/subdir/.

At the end, all that has to be done is to restart openHAB from the new path.

All addons will reside in runtime/addons_inactive if not moved automatically to runtime/addons/ from the script, so it is easy to activate more addons.

A assumption is, that all user-specific Stuff resides in /srv/openhab/configurations #the configs /srv/openhab/etc #for persistence-data /srv/openhab/images #images for the UI which makes it necessary to move or copy the data first (only once).

All delivered configurations/ are moved to configurations_old/, just as etc/ is moved to etc_old/ and webapps/images/ is moved to webapps/images_old/, so no data is lost (e.g. new openhab.cfg-entrys)

Script 2

This script overwrites all files of the defined openhab-folder. The packages you want to update can be specified in the script. (see filelist, addonlist). You can also define file names to be excluded from the update process.

https://code.google.com/p/openhab-samples/source/browse/scripts/openhab_get_snapshot_overwrite.sh?repo=wiki