Initial Configuration Challenges

[BigGeorgeTx]

I'm not sure the best way to do this, but after spending a fair amount of time just getting the initial installation working, I thought I would share the problems I encountered and how I resolved them, in hopes that this will be helpful to a future traveler. I will admit upfront that I am not an experienced programmer, unless you count FORTRAN.

My set up is on a Raspberry Pi 4B, to which I connect via SSH. My intended use is with OpenHAB.

The problems I encountered:

1. Copying somecomfort_homie_start.py to /usr/local/bin/. I first tried
   . It took me a while to figure out that despite the RAW option being specified, this was download the html version. It was resolved by using:
   curl -o somecomfort_homie_start.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mjcumming/Somecomfort-Homie/master/somecomfort_homie_start.py
   To get the raw URL, I first logged into GitHub, clicked on the somecomfort_homie_start.py link, which displays the nicely colored html version. In the upper right hand corner, there is a RAW button. I pressed that and I got the plain text code with the URL that I used. Note that you need to be in the target folder on the Pi when you enter the curl command.

2. The next problem I encountered was that somecomfort_homie_start.py could not find the .yml file. This error was fairly easy to find by entering systemd status somecomfort-homie.service. I fixed it by edited the .py file (sudo nano filename) and appending the folder, in my case /etc/ to the .yml file name.