Announcing openHAB 2.2

Dome · December 20, 2017, 1:07am

Yes, I echo the other commenters and am very grateful for the diligent work of the maintainers and other contributors. openHAB has greatly matured even in the last year I’ve been using it.

Thorbjorn_Skistad · December 20, 2017, 12:37pm

Update from openhab 2.1 to 2.2 worked perfectly with apt within openhabian.

Had to put in the extra java opts for pointing to the zwave stick but that was it.

Rules worked fine, and with the new vs code plugin, it helped me fix an syntax error in my rules.

And, now the ikea trådfri color bulbs work, woo-hoo!

Thanks for all the work you guys and girls put into making OH.

sihui · December 20, 2017, 3:58pm

As I am using only the snapshot runtimes, do I miss something regarding the 2.3 snapshot bindings?

https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB2-Bundles/lastSuccessfulBuild/

Did they move to another place?

SepuGian · December 20, 2017, 5:57pm

Beautiful! How I can use or install Home Builder?

mp91 · December 21, 2017, 10:29am

Great to see this release!

Just one remark, the link in the docs of windows still points to the (now) old release of Openhab 2.1.0.

5iver · December 21, 2017, 3:00pm

One of the new features that missed the release notes, and fills a big gaping hole in the DSL, is triggeringItem…

sihui · December 21, 2017, 6:19pm

Thx, 2.3 snapshots are available now, up and running again

Celaeno1 · December 21, 2017, 8:09pm

@SepuGian

PaperUI → Add-ons → User Interfaces → Home Builder → Install

or

.\conf\services\addons.cfg

ui = homebuilder

How to use it:

https://github.com/openhab/openhab-core/blob/master/bundles/org.openhab.ui.homebuilder/USAGE.md

SpeedMaxX · December 21, 2017, 8:49pm

Hi,

Thank you guys for your hard work!

I was hoping for any news on the homekit-binding and an opportunity to expose roller shutters, but, it seems, that there’s no step foward. Are there any further plans on this topic?

Regards, Speedy

SepuGian · December 21, 2017, 10:15pm

Thank you, I have updated yesterday openHab to 2.2.0 Release (Mac OS X) but in paperUi -> add-ons -> I have only 3 tabs: Bindings, Misc and Voice.

Celaeno1 · December 22, 2017, 8:40am

Hmm, I don’t know this issue, maybe there is a difference to Mac OS X version. (I use Windows 10)

Mine is looking (since a very long time) like this:

But you can also try:

.\conf\services\addons.cfg

ui = homebuilder

Mage · December 22, 2017, 9:12am

C:\OpenHAB_2_2>start.bat
Launching the openHAB runtime…
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk-9.0.1\jre\lib\endorsed;C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk-9.0.1\lib\endorsed;C:\OpenHAB_2_2\runtime\bin…\lib\endorsed is not supported. Endorsed standards and standalone APIs
in modular form will be supported via the concept of upgradeable modules.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

I did a fresh Win10, JAVA 9, OpenHAB 2.2 install and got the following error above. Any idea?

opus · December 22, 2017, 9:34am

Reading the docs would give that explanation:

As for now, a pre-release Java 9 installation is not recommended and is not yet supported by openHAB 2.

Celaeno1 · December 22, 2017, 9:41am

openhab/openhab-distro/blob/master/distributions/openhab/src/main/resources/bin/karaf.bat#L384


    RD /S /Q "%KARAF_HOME%\lib"
    MOVE /Y "%KARAF_HOME%\lib.next" "%KARAF_HOME%\lib"
)


SET IS_RUNNABLE=false
if "%ROOT_INSTANCE_RUNNING%" == "false" SET IS_RUNNABLE=true
if "%CHECK_ROOT_INSTANCE_RUNNING%" == "false" SET IS_RUNNABLE=true
if "%IS_RUNNABLE%" == "true" (
"%JAVA%" %JAVA_OPTS% %OPTS% ^
    -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" ^
    -Djava.endorsed.dirs="%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\endorsed;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\endorsed;%KARAF_HOME%\lib\endorsed" ^
    -Djava.ext.dirs="%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\ext;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\ext;%KARAF_HOME%\lib\ext" ^
    -Dkaraf.instances="%OPENHAB_USERDATA%\tmp\instances" ^
    -Dkaraf.home="%KARAF_HOME%" ^
    -Dkaraf.base="%KARAF_BASE%" ^
    -Dkaraf.etc="%KARAF_ETC%" ^
    -Dkaraf.logs="%OPENHAB_LOGDIR%" ^
    -Dkaraf.restart.jvm.supported=true ^
    -Djava.io.tmpdir="%KARAF_DATA%\tmp" ^
    -Dkaraf.data="%KARAF_DATA%" ^
    -Djava.util.logging.config.file="%KARAF_BASE%\etc\java.util.logging.properties" ^

gloeckner_ronny · December 25, 2017, 11:01am

openHAB 2.2 on Ubuntu (Ubuntu 17.10)

Guys many thanks for providing another new version of openHAB.
When I migrated from my old system to openHAB 2 (now 2.1.0.1) I used the standard Ubuntu repositories to install openHAB.
I was wondering how and when the new release may show up there? Does anyone of you know that process?
Do you recommend an alternate repository to refer?

Thank & Merry Christmas.

Adam_E · December 27, 2017, 7:50am

Wanted to also reply and thank everyone for the great work, I upgraded this weekend on Debian from 2.1 to 2.2 without any issues. Reading some of the comments, I do like the idea of having a 2.2.x branch for critical fixes to end up in so we can continue to have even more rock solid builds.

Mage · December 27, 2017, 3:52pm

Thanks for the quick answer for both of you Alex and Jurgen, I downgraded JAVA to v8 and and it works.

FRamos · December 27, 2017, 4:15pm

And well deserved …
You and the entire development team are to be congratulated.

I have already upgraded from version 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 and everything is now working, with some improvements already implemented.
Not until after a few difficulties, which were only exceeded after having performed an installation from scratch. So I got a “new” and “clean” system.

Once again, thank you very much for the excellent results.

A Very Happy New Year to the entire openHAB community.

rlkoshak · December 27, 2017, 7:07pm

Whenever Canonical decides to update it. I don’t think we have any input into that process and when I use other open source programs they almost all universally say not to use the very outdated versions that come in the Ubuntu repos.

See http://docs.openhab.org/installation/linux.html#package-repository-installation to install the OH repo and update and install from there.

Jonas88 · December 28, 2017, 12:55pm

Hi!
I’d like to update! Since it’s my first update i have some thoughts:
Are there any instructions, suggestions on what to do/backup?
I don’t want to lose my setup (i have a hard copy) but i want to update as smooth as possible.
Or does nothing get lost after the update (bindings, habpanel etc.)
Thank you!