FHEM (stands for "Freundliches HomeMatic-Management") is an open-source home automation server that allows you to control various smart home devices. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FHEM on Fedora Server Latest.
Before you begin with the installation, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:
First, update your system packages to their latest available versions:
sudo dnf update
To install FHEM on Fedora Server Latest, you need to install some packages that are required by FHEM. Run the following command to install them:
sudo dnf install perl perl-Module-Build make wget curl
Next, download and install FHEM by running the following commands:
wget https://fhem.de/fhem-6.0.tar.gz
tar xzf fhem-6.0.tar.gz
cd fhem-6.0
sudo ./fhem.pl fhem.cfg
This will install FHEM and start the FHEM server.
FHEM server is now running and accessible at port 8083 of your Fedora Server Latest. To access the FHEM web interface, open your web browser and enter the following URL:
http://localhost:8083/fhem/
You will be prompted to enter your FHEM login credentials. The default username and password are both "admin". After logging in, you can start configuring and controlling your smart home devices.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install FHEM on Fedora Server Latest. Now that you have FHEM up and running, you can easily control your smart home devices. For more information about FHEM, refer to the FHEM documentation.
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