Domoticz is a home automation system that allows you to control various smart devices and sensors from a single web interface. The system is open-source, and you can install it on most Linux distributions, including MXLinux. In this tutorial, we'll go through the process of installing Domoticz on MXLinux latest.
The first step is to update the system packages to their latest versions. To do this, open a terminal window and execute the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Domoticz requires some dependencies to be installed before it can work efficiently. Enter the following command to install them:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libudev-dev cmake libboost-all-dev
After installing the dependencies, we can now proceed to install Domoticz. Execute the following commands in the terminal:
$ cd ~
$ git clone --branch master https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz.git
$ cd domoticz
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make -j4
$ sudo make install
This command will clone the Domoticz repository from GitHub, create a build directory, generate the makefiles, compile the source code, and install the binaries in system-wide directories.
To start the Domoticz service, enter the following command:
$ sudo systemctl start domoticz.service
You can now access Domoticz by opening a web browser and navigating to http://<MXLinux_IP_address>:8080.
To ensure that Domoticz starts automatically after a reboot or power cycle, we need to enable the Domoticz service at boot time. Enter the following command:
$ sudo systemctl enable domoticz.service
In this tutorial, we have successfully installed Domoticz on MXLinux latest release. You can now explore the various features of Domoticz and start building your smart home automation system.
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