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Installing OpenZWave

Build Yourself

To make sure you have the latest version of OpenZWave we recommend you download and build the source yourself.

Note about -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI

Starting in g++ 5.1, there has been a change with how some of the linkage symbols work. If you're using a newer compiler, you can use -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 to get the old behaviour. The addon-builder runs on Travis and uses version 4.8 of g++, so it builds libraries with the old symbols. In order to be compatible, you should build your copy of openzwave using this define as well. The instructions below show how to build with _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0.

Linux

First you need to install pkg-config.

On Ubuntu:

 $ sudo apt-get install pkg-config

Then download and build the OpenZWave source code:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave.git
$ cd open-zwave
$ CFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 make && sudo CFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 make install

I found that this installed libopenzwave.so.1.4 into /usr/local/lib64 which isn't in the default search location for shared libraries. The node-openzwave-shared page recommendation is to put a symlink into /usr/local/lib and that seems reasonable to me. I also had to run ldconfig in order to update the cache.

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libopenzwave.so /usr/local/lib/libopenzwave.so
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libopenzwave.so.1.4 /usr/local/lib/libopenzwave.so.1.4
$ sudo ldconfig

Mac OS X

Install pkg-config following the instructions here.

Then download and build the OpenZWave source code:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenZWave/open-zwave.git
$ cd open-zwave
$ CFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 make && sudo CFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 make install

Download a Binary

Alternatively you can try installing a pre-built binary for your operating system.

Linux

The OpenZWave website hosts binaries for various Linux distributions (be sure to install both libopenzwave and libopenzwave-dev).

Mac OS X

On Mac OS X you can try installing OpenZWave using HomeBrew.

$ brew install open-zwave

Note: Using the Mozilla IoT gateway didn't work with this method the last time we tried it.