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One of Hobson's goals is to maintain a small enough footprint to run on resource-limited devices. For those that don't want to incur the cost of running a full PC or Mac all the time, the Raspberry Pi shown above is a great alternative.

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You can install Java (if 1.7 or better isn't already installed) via the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-jdk

Note: If you get an error complaining about missing dependencies, you can run the following command before the above one:


sudo apt-get -f install

4. Download and Install Hobson DEB

You can get a link to the latest Hobson DEB package on the downloads page. The filename will be in the form of "hobson-hub-x.x.x.deb" (where x.x.x is the version number).

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sudo dpkg -i hobson-hub-0.9.0.deb

Once installed, you can start the Hobson service by running the following command:

sudo systemctl start hobson.service

Using Hobson

You can get started using Hobson by using a web browser to connect to the following URL:

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