Setup, Configuration and Use

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

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Excessive recompiling on almost every touch of item and sometimes rules Scripts & Rules	89	469	August 11, 2026
openHAB 5.2 Release discussion News & Important Changes	265	5840	August 11, 2026
SSL protocol error on OH 5.2.0 Beginners	22	388	August 11, 2026
5.2.1 doesn't fully start, no javascript, transformations Scripts & Rules	6	70	August 11, 2026
SMA Sunny Tripower Hybrid X vs Fronius Symo Gen24 Plus Beginners sma	9	87	August 11, 2026
Calling Thing Acttions from a blockly rule Scripts & Rules	3	77	August 11, 2026
Sitemap with Webview for Grafana panel Items & Sitemaps	0	35	August 10, 2026
External curtains automation via Python Scripting Add-on Scripts & Rules	0	43	August 10, 2026
OH5 - All things suddenly in NOT YET READY state, no more sitemap Migration openhab5	13	492	August 10, 2026
How to get videostream of a Doorbird camera in OH? Beginners	6	83	August 10, 2026
Bindings Not Installing on Upgrade Migration	5	108	August 9, 2026
RiemanSum - adding up too much? Scripts & Rules	5	113	August 8, 2026
RESOLVED: TKB Home TZ67E Device is Not In Database: Unknown Device Beginners	5	1048	August 8, 2026
BTicino F418U2: support for WHO=1, DIM=4 status frames Installation	4	55	August 8, 2026
Locked rules Scripts & Rules	7	126	August 8, 2026
MCP and Sitemap editing if in UI Beginners	3	95	August 7, 2026
formatBeforePublish behavior varies by channel type (MQTT binding) Beginners	10	165	August 7, 2026
Which air conditioner buy to work with OH? Beginners air-conditioner	38	1073	August 7, 2026
Map transformation with value "closed" Items & Sitemaps transformations , shelly-binding	5	98	August 6, 2026
GPIO Binding "Connecion error" Migration	73	718	August 6, 2026
Persistence question API download vs. internal use Beginners persistance	2	50	August 5, 2026
Openhab on FreeBSD, "check_lock_status: device is locked by another application" Installation	3	69	August 5, 2026
Hermes and mcp Installation	4	172	August 5, 2026
Binding OpenHAB to a specific IP address (as well as localhost) Installation	9	159	August 4, 2026
Upgrading from 4.3.10 to 5.2.0 causes flood of mqtt events to fire Migration	4	81	August 4, 2026
displayState information as text within interactive SVG background Widgets	2	110	August 3, 2026
Oh-chart, especially oh-category-axis stopt working after update to OH 5.2 Widgets	6	149	August 3, 2026
OH 5.2.0 - "upnpcontrol:upnpserver" - thusend of logs :-( Beginners	0	40	August 3, 2026
JRuby OpenHAB Rules System Scripts & Rules	468	14525	August 3, 2026
Get param in url and use in page Widgets main-ui	3	70	July 31, 2026