Basic UI Can't find Sitemap - OpenHabian: SOLVED

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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I’ve put together a simple sitemap:

sitemap our-home label=“Our Home”
{
Dimmer item=FF_Living_Light label=“Light”
}

And I have it sitting in the home/openhabian/sitemaps directory (where the original yo program put it). I have an items file in home/openhabian/items defining the dimmer light:

Dimmer FF_Living_Light “Light” (FF_Living, Lights) { channel=“zwave:device:3fa2d1ea:node5:switch_dimmer” }

I’ve set the default sitemap field in Paper UI to our-home, but when I got into Basic UI, I get the error message:

“It seems like you have not defined any sitemaps yet. To build one, please check the documentation for guidance.”

In the tutorial, the sitemap path is listed as $OPENHAB_CONF/sitemaps, but there is no such directory under the OpenHabian configuration.

Am I getting the error because the program is looking for the $OPENHAB_CONF/sitemaps path, or is it something else? Thanks ahead!

2

I assume your running openHAB on a Pi with openHabian? Then I’m afraid, there was some error while installing it, because with openHABian there’s definitely another file structure…

/home/openhabian is empty (except the Linux files)
all configuration is
/etc/openhab2/... (html,icons,items,persistance,rules,scripts,services,sitemaps,sounds,things,transform)

Did you do much with your Installation already? If not, you should try to install openHABian again (v1.4?)

3

binderth, yes, I am running on a Raspberry Pi 2 with openHabian. I wasn’t having a lot of luck with the other Linux distribution I was using, so I installed a fresh openHabian on a new SD card. I don’t have a lot setup, and I’m still trying to learn the system, so I could conceivably reinstall.

4

that would be the best solution at this Point. So you get a clean fresh install (you can still backup your configuration files and copy them later at the right Location).

5

binderth, I just did a fresh install and re-enrolled my bindings and things. I built new items and sitemaps files using very basic parameters below at directory /etc/openhab2/items and /etc/openhab2/sitemaps:

our-home.items
Dimmer FF_LivingRoom_Lights “Living Room Lights” { channel=“zwave:device:80457dfb:node5:switch_dimmer” }

our-home.sitemap
sitemap our-home label=“Our Home”
{
Dimmer item=FF_LivingRoom_Lights label=“Lights”
}

I set the Basic UI to point to “our-home” sitemap.

Same problem as before. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

6

Remove the “-” from your sitemap name.
=> ourhome

7

That one - and please have a look on your openhab.log located in /var/log/openhab2/ the should be a error message on this

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8

Please have a look at the sitemaps docs as well. “Dimmer” is not a sitemap element. Use either Selection, Slider or Setpoint.

(https://docs.openhab.org/configuration/sitemaps.html)

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binderth, I checked the log and see:

2017-12-23 20:52:34.006 [WARN ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Configuration model ‘our-home.sitemap’ has errors, therefore ignoring it: [1,12]: mismatched input ‘-’ expecting ‘{’

So it does look like the dash might be an issue. I’ll removed and try again. Thanks!

10

Joachim, I’ll make the change and try again. Thanks!

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Thomas and Joachim, your edits did the trick! Thanks! Nice to have some silverbacks around here to lean on! So much to learn…