Updating Domoticz error

When trying to update Domoticz on an old Raspberry Pi image I ran into a problem. Both beta and stable channels didn’t work, not by using the web interface nor manually using the updaterelease and updatebeta scripts. Turns out the download url is no longer correct and should be changed.

pi@raspberrypi ~/domoticz $ ./updatebeta
Updating to latest beta version...
Please Standby...
--2017-01-15 16:51:11--  http://domoticz.sourceforge.net/beta/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz
Resolving domoticz.sourceforge.net (domoticz.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.96
Connecting to domoticz.sourceforge.net (domoticz.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.96|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://domoticz.sourceforge.io/beta/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz [following]
--2017-01-15 16:51:11--  https://domoticz.sourceforge.io/beta/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz
Resolving domoticz.sourceforge.io (domoticz.sourceforge.io)... 216.34.181.153
Connecting to domoticz.sourceforge.io (domoticz.sourceforge.io)|216.34.181.153|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2017-01-15 16:51:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

tar (child): domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory

The script is looking for the update at https://domoticz.sourceforge.io/beta/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz, which results in a 301 and eventually in a 404. It turns out the files moved to http://releases.domoticz.com/releases/.
Since I want to run the beta, I just changed the wget line in the updatebeta script to http://releases.domoticz.com/releases/beta/domoticz_linux_armv7l.tgz for my raspberry pi.

For easy reference here are the current update scripts.

#!/bin/sh

# This script can be used to upgrade to the latest beta version

lowercase(){
    echo "$1" | sed "y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/"
}

OS=`lowercase \`uname -s\``
MACH=`uname -m`
if [ ${MACH} = "armv6l" ]
then
 MACH="armv7l"
fi

echo "Updating to latest beta version..."
echo "Please Standby..."
wget -O domoticz_beta.tgz "http://www.domoticz.com/download.php?channel=beta&type=release&system=${OS}&mach$
tar xvfz domoticz_beta.tgz
rm domoticz_beta.tgz
echo "Restarting Domoticz... (please standby...)"
sudo service domoticz.sh restart

#!/bin/sh

# This script can be used to upgrade to the latest release version

lowercase(){
    echo "$1" | sed "y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/"
}

OS=`lowercase \`uname -s\``
MACH=`uname -m`
if [ ${MACH} = "armv6l" ]
then
 MACH="armv7l"
fi

echo "Updating to latest release version..."
echo "Please Standby..."
wget -O domoticz_release.tgz "http://www.domoticz.com/download.php?channel=stable&type=release&system=${OS}$
tar xvfz domoticz_release.tgz
rm domoticz_release.tgz
echo "Restarting Domoticz... (please standby...)"
sudo service domoticz.sh restart

3 Responses to “Updating Domoticz error”

  1. Andreas

    HI,
    To one that has no experience in this field, How do I go about to access this script on my Pi and change it?

    Reply
  2. Gijs Oliemans

    Hi Andreas, you can find these scripts (updaterelease.sh and updatebeta.sh) in the root of the domoticz folder. You can edit and save them using your favorite editor.

    Check out some tips and tricks in the short Pi cheatsheet: http://dev201.nl/raspberry-pi-cheatsheet/

    Reply

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