ioBroker installation on Raspberry pi Ubuntu or Debian Linux

To automate our home, we need a central unit that brings together our other IoT devices, for which ioBroker is a good solution.

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These may require:

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Raspberry Pi 4 Power Supply (USB-C)

SanDisk Ultra 16GB Class 10 SDHC UHS-I Memory Card

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In terms of hardware, ioBroker can be installed on a SoC single-card computer (RaspberryPI, OrangePI, etc.) or on a desktop PC running Debian or Ubuntu, Linux. I assume the operating system is installed. In the first step, update the system.

sudo apt-get update && upgrade

Check the installed versions of nodejs and npm.

node -v

nodejs -v

npm -v

If the version is correct or no version number is returned, we can proceed with the installation.

If the version is not correct it should be removed as follows.

sudo apt-get --purge remove node

sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs

sudo apt-get autoremove

Then reboot the system.

sudo reboot

Let’s install the cURL program.

sudo apt-get install curl

Then install node.js

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

On Debian as root

sudo su

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash -

apt-get install -y nodejs

Restart the system again.

sudo reboot

Check the nodejs version again.

node -v

If  node -vthe answer is “not found”, enter the following at the command prompt:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Let’s see the npm version:

npm -v

This must return a version number higher than 8. If not, update npm:

sudo -H npm install -g npm@8

Install ioBroker:

curl -sLf https://iobroker.net/install.sh | bash -

If all went well we can see something like this:

Other commands for ioBroker:

sudo systemctl stop iobroker

sudo systemctl start iobroker

sudo systemctl restart iobroker

Now open the IP address you received at the end of the installation in your browser

http://192.168.8 102:8081

We can start setting up iobroker.

Choose a language and accept the terms of use.

Let’s set our iobroker administrator password.

On the next page, you can set it to require a login ID when entering the iobroker administration interface.

Enter your location information, as well as your preferred units, currency and date format.

That’s it, let’s click on the ‘finish’ button.

After completing the basic settings of iobroker, go to the Adapter tab.

In the Adapter panel, install the required adapters.

Find out more about ioBroker here!

Good luck, have a nice day!

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