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FHEM on Windows
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The following description will show you how to install FHEM on Windows on a separate
USB-Drive, without any Windows-registry modifications.
You can use the internal HD for installation too, and you can register fhem as
a service, see below.
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-Install FHEM:
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Install FHEM:
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Download the latest fhem-X.Y.tar.gz package from http://fhem.de#Download
(currently it is fhem-5.4.tar.gz), and unpack it into a directory where you
have at least 350MB+ free space. I will use F:\tmp for this purpose, after
unpacking the .tar.gz file we will have a new directory F:\tmp\fhem-5.4
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-Install perl:
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Install perl:
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Download a Strawberry perl Portable-Edition (this version won't
generate Registry-Entries, and can be installed on USB disks) from
http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html, and extract it into the previously
created directory, in our case F:\tmp\fhem-5.4
My file was called strawberry-perl-5.16.2.1-32bit-portable.zip
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-Start FHEM:
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Start FHEM:
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Open a command line window (cmd), change to the previous directory, and start
FHEM:
- C:> F:
- F:> cd \tmp\fhem-5.4
- F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> mkdir log
- F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
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+ C:> F:
+ F:> cd \tmp\fhem-5.4
+ F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> mkdir log
+ F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
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Note:
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There is no visible output and the command won't terminate.
You probably have to confirm a Firewall exception (Do not block), as FHEM
opens a Web-Server Port.
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-Connect to the FHEM Web frontend (FHEMWEB):
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Connect to the FHEM Web frontend (FHEMWEB):
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Start your browser (Firefox, Chrome or Safari are preferred) and open
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http://localhost:8083/fhem
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You'll see a smiling-house icon on a light-yellow background.
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-Update FHEM to get access to the latest development version (recommended but
-not mandatory):
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Update FHEM to get access to the latest development version (recommended
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In the browser window, on the FHEMWEB page, in the command line (upper text
input field, right of the smiling house icon), type in the following 4
commands one-by-one, confirming each one with Enter:
- notice confirm update-20130127-001
- attr global backup_before_update 0
- save
- update
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+ notice confirm update-20130127-001
+ attr global backup_before_update 0
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+ update
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Note:
- - the last command will take a while (around a minute), and after finished
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+ - the last command will take a while (around a minute), and after finished
it will ask you to "shutdown restart". Ignore this, and just type
shutdown in the FHEMWEB command line.
- - Switch to the command line window, and restart FHEM with the last command,
- i.e. arrow up and RETURN or type in
- perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
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- Switch to the command line window, and restart FHEM with the last command,
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+ perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
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-Install FHEM as a service (better to install perl on the internal hard-disk for
-this scenario):
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Install FHEM as a service (better to install perl on the internal hard-disk
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Terminate fhem by typing shutdown again in the FHEMWEB command line.
Install the missing Win32::Daemon perl module by typing in the command window:
- F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> PATH=F:\tmp\fhem-5.4\c\bin;F:\tmp\fhem-5.4\perl\bin;%PATH%
- F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\cpan -i Win32::Daemon
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+ F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> PATH=F:\tmp\fhem-5.4\c\bin;F:\tmp\fhem-5.4\perl\bin;%PATH%
+ F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\cpan -i Win32::Daemon
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Install FHEM as a service
- F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg -i
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+ F:\tmp\fhem-5.4> perl\bin\perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg -i
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