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! HABPanel Examples Examples dashboard of HABPanel and descriptions how to create them. Solutions Concrete combinations of items+rules+sitemaps+..., can be binding or device specific.

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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 f…	83	29870	March 3, 2020
Per-person, per-item command permissions for openHAB — client certs + reverse proxy + ACL gateway Solutions permissions , habapp , main-ui	2	24	October 13, 2026
Dashboard for the kitchen openHAB Stories	0	41	October 13, 2026
Connect to new BMW CarData service through MQTT Solutions	91	4561	October 9, 2026
openHAB with reverse proxy using OPNsense and HAProxy Solutions security , reverseproxy , haproxy	4	369	October 9, 2026
Reading a water meter's scanning disc: a battery-free optical reader with MQTT and openHAB Solutions rules , mqtt , water , esp32	1	209	October 3, 2026
Timeline picker to setup heating, light and so on Tutorials & Examples rules	943	59422	October 2, 2026
Openvehicles Monitoring System (OVMS) connection to OH via MQTT Tutorials & Examples	3	179	September 30, 2026
Vibe coded family dashbaord openHAB Stories	3	396	September 25, 2026
openHAB MCP Server + Ollama + Open WebUI — Complete Setup Guide Solutions	34	1514	September 23, 2026
Near real time mostly local voice assistant with R2T2, Needle3 openHAB Stories voicecontrol	1	127	September 21, 2026
Rademacher Homepilot (DuoFern) via http-Binding Solutions rademacher , duofern , homepilot	98	12507	September 17, 2026
Smart Garage door opener and status for 15 EUR Solutions	2	444	September 16, 2026
Bosch and Siemens appliances smart without Home Connect: reading the internal D-Bus over MQTT Solutions mqtt , siemens , esp32 , home-connect , bosch	3	427	September 11, 2026
How to Control Smart Switches for an Off-Grid System to get the Maximum Energy from a PV inverter? Tutorials & Examples	2	135	September 9, 2026
Cronitor — Monitoring your local Openhab Instance online/offline Tutorials & Examples monitoring	2	281	September 3, 2026
ESP32 with a small display Solutions display , esp32	2	656	September 1, 2026
Tesla Powerwall 3 Integration using pypowerwall-server & MQTT Binding Solutions	4	181	August 28, 2026
Mammotion Yuka/Luba integration to OpenHAB Tutorials & Examples	1	149	August 26, 2026
How to integrate Shelly BLU TRV Solutions	0	73	August 25, 2026
Pairing ESB64NP-IPM with OpenHAB Solutions	0	80	August 23, 2026
BLANCO CHOICE.All in openHAB: an ESP32 BLE-to-MQTT gateway Solutions	0	101	August 23, 2026
My workaround for a daily ZRAM Sync of Openhab rrjd persistance Solutions zram	11	347	August 18, 2026
Drexel & Weiss Device Integration Solutions modbus , rs232 , drexel-weiss	69	5793	August 6, 2026
Dynamic electricity pricing in Québec : OpenHab FTW! openHAB Stories electricity	10	2415	August 5, 2026
My new Smart Home Automation System with OpenHab2 - Work in progress -> Migrating to OpenHAB3 -> Migrating to OpenHAB 4 -> Migrating to OpenHAB 5 openHAB Stories tutorial , openhab , openhab3 , openhab4 , openhab5	353	42039	August 4, 2026
Automower (Husqvarna) MainUI Page Solutions	0	133	July 30, 2026
Tesla Powerwall 3 Integration using PyPowerwall Proxy & HTTP Binding Solutions	16	1205	July 24, 2026
Solax Hybrid X1/X3 Inverter RealTime Data and control locally Tutorials & Examples modbus , modbus-tcp , solax	22	13013	July 23, 2026
Icon Set with Theme Tutorials & Examples icons , iconset	0	157	July 21, 2026