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We cannot stress enough that following the below steps is a long and delicate process. We try our best to not have to run any other command but please don’t simply copy-paste them in your terminal without paying attention. It may be outdated, missing or overlapping information. So only advanced users should try it. OK?

Good. Once this is clear lets dig into it right away:

If you are looking for the old installation steps for Raspbian Jessie click here.

Note: Groups of commands may be shown with a \ at the end of each line and a && at the beginning. This makes it easier to copy-paste them over SSH and run them all one after the other unless any command fails.

##### SYSTEM #####
Flash Raspbian Stretch (not Lite) image (2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.img) and mount boot partition
sudo touch ssh
Insert SD in RaspberryPi, plug LCD on and boot.
sudo visudo
pi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
sudo raspi-config
Localisation Options>Change timezone
Change pi’s password to hestia

sudo apt-get remove --purge -y wolfram-engine wolframscript libreoffice* scratch* minecraft-pi sonic-pi dillo gpicview realvnc-vnc-server \ && sudo apt-get autoremove -y \ && sudo apt-get autoclean -y \ && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade \ && sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https mosquitto bc dnsmasq hostapd vim python3-flask python3-requests git dirmngr;

Make WiFi reconnect on drop
sudo cp /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/ifplugd/action.d/ifupdown
##### SYSTEM #####

##### LCD #####
wget http://www.hestiapi.com/download/LCD-show-170703.tar.gz \ && tar xvf LCD-show-170703.tar.gz \ && cd LCD-show/ \ && sudo ./LCD35-show;

sudo rm -rf LCD-show*; sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d \ && sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf \ && sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf;

Section "InputClass" Identifier "calibration" MatchProduct "ADS7846 Touchscreen" Option "Calibration" "3900 218 246 3832" EndSection

To get more precise touch, adjust the 4 numbers according to YOUR calibration output from the below steps
sudo dpkg -i ./LCD-show/xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1_armhf.deb
and select on the LCD [Start Menu] > Preferences > Calibrate Touchscreen

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
find, uncomment/modify the xserver-command line under [Seat:*] to this:
xserver-command=X -nocursor
##### LCD #####

##### JAVA #####
sudo su; apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 0x219BD9C9 \ && echo 'deb http://repos.azulsystems.com/debian stable main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zulu.list \ && apt-get update -qq \ && apt purge -y *java* \ && apt-get install -y zulu-embedded-8 \ && java -version;
Use the following command to make sure that the new Zulu JDK is being used as default and is the only alternative:
update-alternatives --config java
##### JAVA #####

##### OH #####
wget -qO - 'https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=openhab' | sudo apt-key add - \ && echo 'deb https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab2.list \ && sudo apt-get update \ && sudo apt-get install openhab2 \ && sudo apt-get autoremove -y \ && sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload \ && sudo /bin/systemctl enable openhab2.service \ && sudo adduser openhab i2c \ && sudo adduser openhab gpio \ && sudo reboot;

Visit http://[RASPI_IP]:8080
Select Standard (and wait…)
Go to PaperUI > Addons

Bindings Install:
Exec, GPIO, HTTP, MQTT

Persistence Install:
RRD4J

Transformations Install:
Map, Regex

User Interfaces:
Basic UI, HABmin, HABPanel, Paper UI
##### OH #####

##### INSTALL HESTIA #####
mkdir /home/pi/git \ && cd /home/pi/git/ \ && git clone https://github.com/HestiaPi/hestia-touch-openhab.git \ && cd /home/pi/git/hestia-touch-openhab/home/pi/ \ && cp -R scripts /home/pi/ \ && cd /home/pi/scripts/ \ && sudo chmod +x update.sh \ && touch /tmp/publicip \ && sudo chmod 777 /tmp/publicip \ && sudo ./update.sh;

Clear the messages on the LCD
Make /home/pi/scripts/logo.png the wallpaper “Center unscaled image on the monitor”
Remove all Desktop icons and panel items and empty spacer from panel
Delete folders
sudo rm -rf Documents Downloads MagPi Music oldconffiles Pictures Public Videos;
##### INSTALL HESTIA #####

##### AUTOSTART #####
touch /home/pi/.config/autostart/openhaloader.desktop \ && nano /home/pi/.config/autostart/openhaloader.desktop;

Add these:
[Desktop Entry] Comment=Start Chromium in Kiosk mode with HAB Panel UI Exec=/home/pi/scripts/openhabloader.sh Icon= Name=openhabloader.sh Path=/home/pi/scripts/ Type=Application

sudo /home/pi/scripts/HVACEnable.sh
(reboots automatically)

After reboot
1. Let LCD finish loading
2. Once the screen is blank, slide to the right
3. Tap on the gear icon bottom left next to the clock
4. Select “Panel configuration: Server Storage”
5. Press OK on the popup
6. Click on the burger menu again on the top left corner
7. Choose “HestiaPi – Heating”
##### AUTOSTART #####

##### MQTT #####
sudo nano /etc/openhab2/services/mqtt.cfg
add at the end
mosquitto.url=tcp://localhost:1883 mosquitto.clientId=hestiapi

For testing use a laptop and type:
mosquitto_sub -h [HESTIA_PI_IP] -d -t hestia/#
##### MQTT #####

##### TURNKEY #####
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.4/node-v8.9.4-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \ && sudo mkdir /usr/lib/nodejs \ && sudo tar -xJvf node-v8.9.4-linux-armv6l.tar.xz -C /usr/lib/nodejs \ && rm -rf node-v8.9.4-linux-armv6l.tar.xz \ && sudo mv /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4-linux-armv6l /usr/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4 \ && echo 'export NODEJS_HOME=/usr/lib/nodejs/node-v8.9.4' >> ~/.profile \ && echo 'export PATH=$NODEJS_HOME/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile \ && source ~/.profile \ && wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.10.linux-armv6l.tar.gz \ && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go*gz \ && rm go*gz \ && echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin' >> ~/.profile \ && echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> ~/.profile \ && source ~/.profile;

cd /home/pi/scripts \ && git clone https://github.com/schollz/raspberry-pi-turnkey.git \ && sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq && sudo systemctl stop hostapd \ && echo 'interface wlan0 static ip_address=192.168.4.1/24' | sudo tee --append /etc/dhcpcd.conf; sudo mv /etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/dnsmasq.conf.orig; sudo systemctl daemon-reload; sudo systemctl restart dhcpcd; echo 'interface=wlan0 dhcp-range=192.168.4.2,192.168.4.20,255.255.255.0,24h' | sudo tee --append /etc/dnsmasq.conf; echo 'interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=HESTIAPI hw_mode=g channel=7 wmm_enabled=0 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=1 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=HESTIAPI wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP' | sudo tee --append /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf \ && echo 'DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf"' | sudo tee --append /etc/default/hostapd \ && sudo systemctl start hostapd && sudo systemctl start dnsmasq;

nano /home/pi/scripts/raspberry-pi-turnkey/templates/index.html
Hide email field from page by changing it to this

<div class="form-label-group"> <input type="hidden" name="email" id="inputEmail" class="form-control" placeholder="Email address">  </div>

sudo nano /etc/rc.local;
Add this at the end before exit 0
su pi -c '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/scripts/raspberry-pi-turnkey/startup.py &'
##### TURNKEY #####

##### CHROMIUM #####
Fix default Chromium font
Kill all Chromium instances
pgrep chromium | xargs kill -9
Start it from the LCD Menu > Internet > Chromium Web Browser
Go to Chromium > Settings > Scroll under Appearance > Customise fonts
Set DejaVu Sans for Standard
##### CHROMIUM #####

##### SD OPTIMISATION #####
sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo nano /etc/fstab
add at the end:

tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=50M 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,size=100m 0 0 #tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=50M 0 0
For maximum optimisation you can disable logging by uncommenting the last line
##### SD OPTIMISATION #####

Manual installation

Here be dragons!

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