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 Items & Sitemaps Installation All questions and discussions around the initial installation of openHAB. 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
Tabular and historical data – do you have any ideas on how to solve this? Widgets	19	175	March 19, 2026
VSCode extension for js rules and variables Beginners	14	240	March 18, 2026
openHAB 5.2 SNAPSHOT discussion News & Important Changes	11	912	March 18, 2026
Tuya Smart Plug - Warning every min - Could not update channel 'fault' of thing 'tuya:tuyaDevice:xxx' with value '0.0'. Datatype incompatible Runtime	7	104	March 18, 2026
ESPHome binding and Bluetooth receiver based on ESP32 Migration	31	140	March 18, 2026
OneWire binding stops working Beginners onewire	1	47	March 18, 2026
How to access items from npm own JavaScript library? Scripts & Rules	16	120	March 17, 2026
Memory usage of OH and how to reduce Installation	3	130	March 17, 2026
OH5 - rule errors Migration openhab-5	13	749	March 17, 2026
Door Status inverted Beginners	4	109	March 17, 2026
Understanding event.time in JS rules with TimeOfDayTrigger Beginners	4	64	March 16, 2026
Calling JS script from JS rule and passing arguments Scripts & Rules	5	125	March 16, 2026
`console.log()` outputs 4 times instead of 1 Scripts & Rules	8	99	March 16, 2026
How to access to global settings from within rules? Scripts & Rules	4	126	March 16, 2026
Item unit conversion (Temperature) Items & Sitemaps	18	3737	March 16, 2026
Can't use Homematic IP HMIP-WRC2 Items & Sitemaps	17	2301	March 16, 2026
Deleting old persistence after years of abandonend items Runtime persist	2	79	March 15, 2026
Group/(Sub)Group/items in persistence and rules Beginners	7	1719	March 15, 2026
System generates timeout messages when testing/debugging JRuby scripts Scripts & Rules rules , jruby , ruby , timeout	17	459	March 15, 2026
Openhab causes issue on minidlna player Runtime	0	27	March 14, 2026
OH Support for Nuki Keypad 2 Beginners bindings , things , nuki	4	147	March 14, 2026
Connect to EOL hardware with expired TLS 1.2 certificate Beginners ihc , java , network , certificate , truststore	10	166	March 13, 2026
Mosquitto Server no connection to ems or anonymous Migration mqtt	1	45	March 13, 2026
Annoying "action" in Code Editor Beginners rules	6	180	March 12, 2026
Main UI Widget - Any way to get the page name? Widgets add-ons , widget , main-ui , openhab5	2	55	March 12, 2026
Thread Network Map Tool Scripts & Rules thread	0	81	March 12, 2026
How to organize the (custom) widgets? Beginners	1	70	March 12, 2026
Channel -> Item time conversion Beginners	7	77	March 11, 2026
Best practices in creating an UI for beginners? Beginners	15	539	March 11, 2026
Layout page navigation Beginners	2	69	March 11, 2026