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-java7java8-jdk
4. Download and Install Hobson DEBDownload
You can get a link to the latest Hobson DEB file from the downloads section and the run package on theĀ downloads page. The filename will be in the form of "hobson-hub-x.x.x.deb" (where x.x.x is the version number).
Download the package using the wget
command (make sure you replace the URL with the latest one from the downloads page):
wget -O hobson.debĀ https://bintray.com/whizzosoftware/maven/download_file?file_path=com%2Fwhizzosoftware%2Fhobson%2Fhobson-hub-deb%2F0.9.0%2Fhobson-hub-deb-0.9.0.deb
Then, install the package by running the following command:
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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