Setup, Configuration and Use

News & Important Changes This category is a channel to communicate important changes and updates on the openHAB 2 distro snapshots. Scripts & Rules All questions and discussions around scripts, rules, (official) helper libraries and automation add-ons. Widgets 1.x Compatibility Installation All questions and discussions around the initial installation of openHAB. Items & Sitemaps Runtime Migration Beginners Ask your questions of the first hour here. Please also read the “About the Beginnners category” article to find some helpful hints.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Openhab causes issue on minidlna player Runtime	0	11	March 14, 2026
OH Support for Nuki Keypad 2 Beginners bindings , things , nuki	4	134	March 14, 2026
Connect to EOL hardware with expired TLS 1.2 certificate Beginners ihc , java , network , certificate , truststore	10	158	March 13, 2026
ESPHome binding and Bluetooth receiver based on ESP32 Migration	4	38	March 13, 2026
Mosquitto Server no connection to ems or anonymous Migration mqtt	1	40	March 13, 2026
Annoying "action" in Code Editor Beginners rules	6	178	March 12, 2026
OneWire binding stops working Beginners onewire	0	31	March 12, 2026
Main UI Widget - Any way to get the page name? Widgets add-ons , widget , main-ui , openhab5	2	49	March 12, 2026
Thread Network Map Tool Scripts & Rules thread	0	79	March 12, 2026
How to organize the (custom) widgets? Beginners	1	64	March 12, 2026
System generates timeout messages when testing/debugging JRuby scripts Scripts & Rules rules , jruby , ruby , timeout	16	426	March 11, 2026
Channel -> Item time conversion Beginners	7	75	March 11, 2026
Best practices in creating an UI for beginners? Beginners	15	534	March 11, 2026
Layout page navigation Beginners	2	66	March 11, 2026
OH5 - rule errors Migration openhab-5	11	708	March 11, 2026
Hypontech HT-6000 and Modbus binding Beginners	6	202	March 11, 2026
Ruletrigger by cron in OH5.1.3 Scripts & Rules trigger	16	186	March 10, 2026
Installing bluetooth binding Migration	10	100	March 9, 2026
Missing ability to see Channel Properties in Main UI Runtime	5	99	March 9, 2026
OH 5.0.0.SNAPHOT (14-04-2025) The setScriptEngineFactory method has thrown an exception java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null Runtime snapshot , transformations , openhab5	2	144	March 8, 2026
How to add a missing Channel to a Shelly Plus Dimmer 10V Thing Beginners shelly-binding	6	132	March 8, 2026
[amazonechocontrol v5.x.x] - lastVoiceCommand vs. TTS (both never working together) Beginners amazonechocontrol	19	184	March 8, 2026
Rrd4j.persist Migration	1	46	March 7, 2026
Astro Binding ----- Civil Dawn Event does not trigger Beginners	2	54	March 7, 2026
Esphome latest version Migration	3	99	March 7, 2026
Simple Python script that reads Google Calendar and updates OH items with event information Scripts & Rules googlecalendar , python , openhab2	150	23381	March 7, 2026
Bash script for helper libraries Scripts & Rules libraries , jsscripting	1	57	March 5, 2026
February missing from month type charts Widgets charts	5	140	March 5, 2026
Tabular and historical data – do you have any ideas on how to solve this? Widgets	16	146	March 5, 2026
A few issue with time series Items & Sitemaps timeseries	4	119	March 5, 2026