Running the ref implementation on Raspberry PI

[Frank Schubert]

Did somebody get the ref implementation to run on a Raspberry? I tried installing it today and after launching ./Application everything was unpacked and installed successfully. But then a format error message was shown and nothing was started. I tried a restart with no success either.

I was able to run everything successfully on Windows 10/64bit though (using the same download).

Not really urgent, but still interested in getting it up and running on the Raspberry Linux.

Thanks in advance, regards Frank

[Dave Robin]

Oh yes, it runs on a Raspberry Pi!

Since I had one sitting on my desk, it was always an informal design target. I say "informal" because it is not specifically a "supported" platform along with Linux, Windows, and Mac, but it was certainly a personal design goal to make sure that it ran and performed reasonably well on a $30 device :-)

I ran it under Version 9 "stretch" on a Model B Plus 1.3. As a hub, it accepted 100 simultaneous connections, and I called that a success. I didn't do much more testing that that, though.

As you noticed, the official launch script "Application" will run on a Pi, but it unpacks a Linux x86 runtime that won't work on Raspbian. So, you just have to manually install a java JRE and then use a modified launch script.

This is my "Application.pi":

#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

java -cp "out/production/BACnetSC:lib/slf4j-api-1.7.28.jar:lib/logback-core-1.2.3.jar:lib/logback-classic-1.2.3.jar" dev.bscs.common.Application "$@"

Hope that works for you too. Feel free to contact me offline for follow-up if it doesn't.

Dave

[Frank Schubert]

Hi Dave,

thanks for the quick reply.

I will try and let you know, but what you wrote makes sense. I did not have a closer look what was unpacked.

Regards Frank