FHEM is a home automation server written in Perl. It can control various devices, such as lights, thermostats, and sensors.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FHEM on OpenBSD.
Before installing FHEM, we need to first install the pre-requisites. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pkg_add -I perl p5-DateTime p5-Device-SerialPort p5-HTTP-Server-Simple-Recorder p5-libwww
This command will install Perl and the required Perl modules for FHEM.
Download the latest FHEM release from the official website:
curl -O https://fhem.de/fhem-6.0.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file:
tar -xvzf fhem-6.0.tar.gz
Move into the extracted directory:
cd fhem-6.0
Run the installation script:
./install_fhem.pl
The script will ask some questions before installing FHEM. Accept the default values for most of them by pressing the Enter key. When prompted, enter a password for FHEM's web interface.
Start FHEM by running the following command:
./fhem.pl fhem.cfg
By default, FHEM will listen on port 8083. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8083 to access FHEM's web interface.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install FHEM on OpenBSD. You can now use FHEM to control your home automation devices.
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