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	30223	March 3, 2020
OHpanel: open-source firmware for the Sonoff NSPanel EU that talks to openHAB directly Solutions sonoff , touchscreen , esp32 , nspanel	114	1674	November 11, 2026
Pulse: a zoomable radial interface for openHAB Tutorials & Examples dashboard , custom , main-ui	3	104	November 9, 2026
Interactive Zigbee2MQTT network map widget Tutorials & Examples zigbee , network , networkmap	25	482	November 6, 2026
How to integrate Shelly BLU TRV Solutions	2	133	November 6, 2026
# [Tutorial] Getting rid of the empty space at the top of the MainUI Overview (and keeping an embedded floor plan flush) Tutorials & Examples	1	122	November 5, 2026
Bash script to search and find rules quickly Solutions rules , bash , search	9	192	November 5, 2026
Timeline picker to setup heating, light and so on Tutorials & Examples rules	964	62261	November 5, 2026
Kitchen Timer HABPanel Examples widget	4	184	November 4, 2026
Per-person, per-item command permissions for openHAB — client certs + reverse proxy + ACL gateway Solutions permissions , habapp , main-ui	8	360	November 2, 2026
Control a water heater and ground source heat pump based on cheap hours of spot priced electricity Solutions	362	24339	October 9, 2024
Spot Price Optimizer: Advanced algorhitms to optimize heating, charging of electric vehicles, water boilers and more Tutorials & Examples electricity	184	6699	June 1, 2025
Dashboard for the kitchen openHAB Stories	1	215	October 26, 2026
Connect to new BMW CarData service through MQTT Solutions	92	5138	October 22, 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	356	42958	October 20, 2026
How To Monitor Remote CPU Temp (Windows) Tutorials & Examples	8	6099	October 20, 2026
Windhager BioWIN 2 pellet boiler via Modbus TCP → Beckhoff CX9020 (TwinCAT 3) → openHAB 5.1 + InfluxDB/Grafana Solutions	0	51	October 18, 2026
openHAB with reverse proxy using OPNsense and HAProxy Solutions security , reverseproxy , haproxy	4	428	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	249	October 3, 2026
Openvehicles Monitoring System (OVMS) connection to OH via MQTT Tutorials & Examples	3	204	September 30, 2026
Vibe coded family dashbaord openHAB Stories	3	498	September 25, 2026
openHAB MCP Server + Ollama + Open WebUI — Complete Setup Guide Solutions	34	1803	September 23, 2026
Near real time mostly local voice assistant with R2T2, Needle3 openHAB Stories voicecontrol	1	145	September 21, 2026
Rademacher Homepilot (DuoFern) via http-Binding Solutions rademacher , duofern , homepilot	98	12888	September 17, 2026
Smart Garage door opener and status for 15 EUR Solutions	2	464	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	524	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	154	September 9, 2026
Cronitor — Monitoring your local Openhab Instance online/offline Tutorials & Examples monitoring	2	304	September 3, 2026
ESP32 with a small display Solutions display , esp32	2	695	September 1, 2026
Tesla Powerwall 3 Integration using pypowerwall-server & MQTT Binding Solutions	4	218	August 28, 2026