At wits end with MQTT configuration

[ThomDietrich]

Hey Christian,

@christianhgross

For starters I did a clean install of OpenHab 2.1, the one from the Internet download page. I also downloaded the addons, including the legacy ones and before I started OpenHab, I put them in the addons directory.

That sounds weird. You shouldn’t need to put anything into that folder. Everything (except pre-release builds) can be installed via Paper UI.

@christianhgross

As you can see nothing wrt to MQTT.

Normally that is an obvious sign for the binding not being installed. As your setup overall sounds a bit weird it might be complicated to help. Could you please state your base system, installation method, etc.?

• http://docs.openhab.org/installation/linux.html
• http://docs.openhab.org/installation/openhabian.html

My recommendation would be to make a quick reinstall with openHABian. Takes a few minutes of your time, then you’ll have a working openHAB instance on your fingertips, then you can follow this simple guide:

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