Can't Sync to Controller 2.5 on Raspberry Pi : Error Msg: The path 'file:/../webapps/controller' doesnt exist.

Designer 2.5
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I have an existing, working design in OpenRemote Designer and I only needed to create a new OpenRemote Controller based on a Raspberry Pi 2

I installed Jessie Operating System and upgraded to latest version with apt-get upgrade

oracle-java8-jdk was already the latest version installed

I installed Openremote Controller 2.5 in /opt/openremote

I started the OpenRemote Controller via sudo /opt/openremote/bin/openremote.sh start

In OpenRemote Designer, I linked to the correct MAC address of the Controller

In my Browser, I connected to the OpenRemote Controller via http://10.4.1.74:8688/controller and got the usual dialog box got to enter my login credentials

However, when I try and sync OpenRemote Designer, I get the following error msg:

     The path 'file:/../webapps/controller' doesnt exist.

Any help?

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I've had this one quite a lot.

I think it's to do with write permissions.

If I start OR from rc.local it works perfectly.

If I stop and restart it afterwards from a command line, even using sudo sh openremote.sh start, it has the same error.

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Your resource.path is configured as
resource.path=…/webapps/controller
in your config.properties file.

Controller will try to resolve this based on your current working directory when starting up.
So either go to /opt/openremote/bin and do a ./openremote.sh start (or run), either update your config.properties to use absolute path.

4

Hi
I’ve just had the same issue with a new installation on an Ubuntu 16, Odroid C2, when trying to start OpenRemote using a systemD service file.

Thankfully this topic helped me to edit the

…/webapps/controller/WEB-INF/classes/config.properties

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file to set the absolute path :slight_smile:

The SystemD method of starting OpenRemote now works perfectly :slight_smile:

If anyone is interested, here is a copy of the text from the service file, from /etc/systemd/system

Please note that I setup a SymLink from /opt/OR-Pro to wherever my OpenRemote 2.x instance is located, but the Absolute path within config.properties is that of the OpenRemote 2.x installation

This file is part of systemd.

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Hello, excuse my newbieness as this is the first attempt at any type of open source for me. I have this same error The path ‘file:/…/webapps/controller’ doesnt exist. when trying to login and cannot figure out how to get around it. I have linked my Designer to the correct Controller and all.

I am on MacOS

Thank you for any assistance.