Start by installing python3 on the system.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip
sudo pip3 install --upgrade virtualenv
Download the latest release copy of the software.
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/TD22057/insteon-mqtt.git
Create a user and group. Give the user access to serial line so that it can talk to the modem. System services should never run as root so this is a dummy user used to just run the server.
sudo adduser --system insteon
sudo addgroup insteon
sudo adduser insteon dialout
Create a directory to install the package in and set it’s ownership and permissions. The change to the new insteon user to finish the installation.
sudo mkdir /opt/insteon-mqtt
sudo chown insteon:insteon /opt/insteon-mqtt
sudo su -s /bin/bash insteon
Install a virtual env to sandbox the software and dependencies and activate it so further installs are done here.
cd /opt/insteon-mqtt
python3 -m venv /opt/insteon-mqtt
source bin/activate
Install the software from the downloaded (or git clone'd) directory. You may get some pip errors complaining about bdist_wheel but those can be ignored.
cd $HOME/insteon-mqtt
pip3 install .
Copy the configuration file to the install location. Edit it to add your insteon devices and configure your MQTT settings. Also update the storage diretory to point at '/opt/insteon-mqtt/data'. You may also want to update the log file locations as well.
cp config.yaml /opt/insteon-mqtt/config.yaml
cd /opt/insteon-mqtt/
mkdir data
nano config.yaml
Try running the server to make sure it will start up. Once it's running OK, stop the process (ctrl-c), and exit the insteon-mqtt user back to your regular user.
insteon-mqtt start config.yaml
[ctrl-c]
exit
Edit the init/insteon-mqtt.service file with the installation path and copy it to the sytem directory. If your system is using something besides systemd, you'll need to use a different file (and commands) that what is provided.
cd $HOME/insteon-mqtt
nano init/insteon-mqtt.service
[update paths if needed]
sudo cp init/insteon-mqtt.service /etc/systemd/system/
Reload the service databse and try and start the service. Use the status command to check the results.
sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start insteon-mqtt
sudo systemctl status insteon-mqtt
If everything looks OK, enable the service to start at the next boot.
sudo systemctl enable insteon-mqtt