Amazon Echo with HA-Bridge Setup

1. Install NOOB to SD card

• Download NOOBS https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/
• Upzip
• Copy to SD Card
• Insert SD Card to Raspberry PI
• Install NOOBS LITE

2. Open SSH for putty

• Login pi : raspberry

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo raspi-config

• Interfacing Options >> SSH >> Yes

3. Set Static IP

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

• Add this to the file

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
#your static IP
address 192.168.1.118  
#your gateway IP
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

• Ctrl+x, Y, Enter to save file

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking reload

4. Install JDK 8

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

5. Install HA-Bridge

• Install ha-bridge to /home/pi/habridge directory

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mkdir habridge
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd habridge
pi@raspberrypi:~/habridge $ wget https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge/releases/download/v4.2.1/ha-bridge-4.2.1.jar

• Create habridge.service

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /etc/systemd/system
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano habridge.service

• Copy this into file

[Unit]
Description=HA Bridge
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple

ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar -Dconfig.file=/home/pi/habridge/data/habridge.config /home/pi/habridge/ha-bridge-4.2.1.jar

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Ctrl+x, Y, Enter to save file

  pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl start habridge.service
  pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl enable habridge.service