Update - 16 January 2024

Instructions below updated to most current Raspberry Pi OS, installed and tested on Raspberry Pi 5, with Omada SDN Controller v5.12.7.  Confirmed that OpenJDK-17 work, which is installable through apt and for which the install instructions have been updated.

 

Update - 26 December 2023

Instructions below updated to most current Raspberry Pi OS, installed and tested on Raspberry Pi 5, with Omada SDN Controller v5.12.7.  Note that the JAVA runtime installation instructions has been updated to OpenJDK-11.

 

Update - 3 June 2023

The links listed below for OpenJDK-8 no longer works.  Omada SDN Controller will run on OpenJDK-11, but that requires JSVC 1.1.0 which is not in the official Raspberry Pi OS repos.  It is possible to solve the dependecies to install JSVC 1.1.0, but I have not had time to update the instructions

 

Also see this FAQ with good info about installing the Omada SDN Controller on a number of Linux distros.

 

Update - 22 January 2023

 

Bare metal install on 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS - no Ubuntu server, no Docker.  Tested with version 4 and now the latest version 5.7.4 of the Controller software. I have it running on a Model 3B+ with 1G RAM.  Also running on Model 4 w/ 4G RAM.

 

Links have been updated and verified on most recent install

 

Instructions:

 

1. Download & install latest 64 bit LITE version of Raspberry pi OS to new sd card of your choice from the link below. Note - the legacy version of Raspberry Pi OS will not work
    https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_arm64/images/
    This is not a guide to installing Raspberry Pi OS so I won't provide detailed instructions on that.

 

2. Download and install version 4.4.18 of MongoDB mongodb-server from https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/community/releases/archive
   wget https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu/dists/focal/mongodb-org/4.4/multiverse/binary-arm64/mongodb-org-server_4.4.18_arm64.deb
   sudo apt install /home/<username>/mongodb-org-server_4.4.18_arm64.deb

 

   Note this post explaining that MongoDB V4.4.19 will not work.

 

3. Mongodb server would normally be run as a service by doing the following commands  
   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo systemctl enable mongod
   sudo systemctl start mongod
   In this case not required, as Omada controller starts the server as required.
   
4. Check that curl is installed

   apt list curl

 

5. Download and install openjdk-17-jre
    sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre-headless

 

6. Install jsvc
   sudo apt install jsvc
   
7. If you have multiple versions of OpenJDK installed then you need to tell system which java to use
   sudo update-alternatives --config java

 

  Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-arm64/bin/java      1111      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-arm64/bin/java      1111      manual mode
* 2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-arm64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

 

   Now select the option pointing to the version of OpenJDK you want to use.

 

8. Download and install latest version Omada SDN controller
   wget https://static.tp-link.com/upload/software/2023/202309/20230920/Omada_SDN_Controller_v5.12.7_Linux_x64.deb
   sudo apt install /home/<username>/Omada_SDN_Controller_v5.12.7_Linux_x64.deb

 

 

If all went well the controller should start and you should get the following message

 

Install Omada Controller succeeded!
==========================
Omada Controller will start up with system boot. You can also control it by [/usr/bin/tpeap].
check omada
Starting Omada Controller. Please wait.........................................................................................................................
Started successfully.
You can visit http://localhost:8088 on this host to manage the wireless network.
========================

 

Now you can access the web interface of the Omada Controller by pointing you web browser from any PC on the same network to 

http://<IP_address_of_Omada_Controller>:8088