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I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but it's kind of a cross between HomeGenie setup and integration with Ubuntu, so I hope I can get some good input or at least pointed in the right direction.

I installed HomeGenie (an open source home automation project) on my server, but I don't quite get the behind the scenes feel I'm looking for. I have to navigate to the HomeGenie directory and run sudo mono HomeGenie.exe to run the program. At this point the program works great for my purposes, however, my terminal is tied up with output from HomeGenie as it is used. If I interrupt (ctrl + c) the program exits.

I'm looking for a cleaner integration/install. I'd also like to set the program to start on boot. I'm using a headless server, so everything is done via command line.

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as we solved this in the HomeGenie forum, I'm sharing the solution also here. I added a note on Running HomeGenie as a Background Service at the end of Getting Started documentation page:

http://generoso.info/homegenie/gettingstarted.html

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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
    – guntbert
    Jun 7, 2013 at 20:13
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You can run the command not attached to the terminal by entering a & after your command so in this case sudo mono HomeGenie.exe & should work I think.

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  • sudo mono HomeGenie.exe & gives output [2] 5438 and I can't access the web page, so I assume it isn't running.
    – Shayne
    May 29, 2013 at 19:30
  • I tried using this guide: tempvariable.blogspot.com/2009/07/… to start on boot (which uses the & but I didn't know what that was for). Either way, it doesn't seem to work.
    – Shayne
    May 29, 2013 at 19:37

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