This is part two of the Universal Rremote for OpenHAB project.  In this part, we will install and configure the Lirc software on our Raspberry Pi.  Part 1 of the article (Building the hardware) is located here:  Building an IR Universal Remote for OpenHAB (Part 1)

    This is the first part of a multi-part project to build an IR receiver/transmitter that will work with my existing remote and talk with my OpenHAB server. 

I currently run Octoprint on a Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to be 3D printer. This setup uses HAProxy to provider the web front end for the user.  I am in the process of securing all my systems so they use SSL (https) and I this article documents how I added SSL to HSProxy using a Let's Encrypt certificate. 

I required a later version on Java that the one that came with Raspbian.  This was required for OpenHAB.  So how do you upgrade your version of Java?  Run the following commands:

sudo su 
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list 
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys EEA14886 
apt-get update 
apt-get install oracle-java8-installer 
Exit