Tutorials & Examples

openHAB Stories Show off your Smart Home Automation! Share a story! Post a few pictures of your setup or tell us about a memorable openHAB experience. No need for further technical explanation. Inspire others! Solutions Concrete combinations of items+rules+sitemaps+..., can be binding or device specific. HABPanel Examples Examples dashboard of HABPanel and descriptions how to create them.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
How to ask a good question / Help Us Help You Tutorials & Examples Before you ask… Community forum is NOT a helpdesk Let’s put this in the front: nobody here works for openHAB. The community members are helping with an Open Source Project, not a commercial software. Additionally, the…	85	28002	November 27, 2020
Install & maintain openHAB on Raspi in Docker together with Mosquitto, Duplicati, influxDB, Samba etc - Step by step instruction Solutions mosquitto , docker , raspberry , portainer , duplicati	88	10639	January 19, 2025
Spot Price Optimizer: Advanced algorhitms to optimize heating, charging of electric vehicles, water boilers and more Tutorials & Examples electricity	100	1841	January 19, 2025
My new Smart Home Automation System with OpenHab2 - Work in progress -> Migrating to OpenHAB3 -> Migrating to OpenHAB 4 openHAB Stories tutorial , openhab , openhab3 , openhab4	291	37734	January 18, 2025
Design Pattern: Looping Timers Tutorials & Examples designpattern	37	18155	January 18, 2025
Design Pattern: Associated Items Tutorials & Examples groups , designpattern	28	28397	January 16, 2025
Tedee Lock and bridge - get status via local API Solutions	16	75	January 16, 2025
Using loki+promtail+grafana for Openhab system and log monitoring Solutions	16	13822	January 16, 2025
Push notification with image from an IPCAM (suitable for dorbell automation and so on) Solutions	6	123	January 15, 2025
Zwave-JS-UI in place of OH Zwave binding openHAB Stories zwave1	137	7900	January 15, 2025
[OH4] Octopus Energy (UK) - real-time electricity consumption data with Home Mini Solutions	5	152	January 14, 2025
Migrating InfluxDB Data to a new installation Solutions influxdb , migration	5	2206	January 14, 2025
iSpindle: Track your homebrews with an opensource MQTT hydrometer temperature sensor openHAB Stories	7	1095	January 12, 2025
Zwave Z-stick SDK issue with OH Z-wave binding Solutions z-wave , zwave , z-stick	0	55	January 9, 2025
Brink Renovent Excellent 300 air ventilation integration Solutions	15	3061	January 9, 2025
MainUI Widgets and a 3D Smart Home Tutorials & Examples widget , 3d , main-ui	6	418	January 9, 2025
SOLUTION: Link Doorbird app relay button to OpenHAB Solutions binding , doorbird	31	4914	January 8, 2025
Start Main UI with individual page in fullscreen mode without any bars and margins Solutions	1	1451	November 5, 2022
Items-file item not saving values. gui item does Solutions	5	60	January 5, 2025
Connecting Askoma Askoheat+ using the Modbus binding Tutorials & Examples modbus-tcp , askoma , askoheat	0	21	January 5, 2025
Sungrow Hybrid Inverter - Target Battery SOC & Optimized Exporting using Modbus Solutions map , modbus , solar , rules-blockly , sungrow	0	187	October 20, 2024
Examples IPX800 V4 with X-8R, X-4VR, X-THL Extension Tutorials & Examples openhab4 , ipx800v4	1	62	January 2, 2025
Heating switch Solutions mqtt-binding , http-binding , rules-dsl , oekofen	3	109	January 2, 2025
Open Space lighting solution - end result - Tutorials & Examples ledstrip , wled	0	59	December 30, 2024
Use case: Water flow sensor for indoor / outdoor usage (Tasmota-flashed ESP + cheap flow meter + MQTT) Solutions irrigation , mqtt , tasmota , watering , waterflowmeter	9	8670	December 30, 2024
Islamic Prayers - Time calculations and rules with audio and video Tutorials & Examples	66	7135	November 23, 2024
Playing local MP3 on Sonos Solutions .mp3 , sonos	10	958	December 28, 2024
OpenHab and Eastron SDM230 configuration example via Modbus TCP (Volison ADM-5850G) Tutorials & Examples modbus-tcp , eastron-sdm230 , energy-meter	6	3576	December 25, 2024
Pi-Hole Integration Tutorials & Examples httpbinding1 , network , pihole	72	24571	December 24, 2024
ZigBee network map when using only the ZigBee Binding Tutorials & Examples zigbee-binding	28	5427	December 22, 2024