Binding Onecta

Setup, Configuration and Use Migration
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Passed in 5.2 this morning the binding Onecta is no longer present while I used it without problem in previous versions. A return to 5.1 does not solve the problem because there is also no longer available
Is there a (good) reason for this sudden disappearance?

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Two good reasons.

  1. This binding is not an official binding. It’s offered by members of the community on the marketplace. The marketplace uses this forum to store the contributions. This means anyone can publish an add-on to the marketplace just by creating a forum post.

    The problem is two days ago the forum software broke and the API OH uses to access the forum changed. Until that gets fixed (hopefully soon) no marketplace add-ons can be discovered and installed in OH through the UI, regardless of the version of OH.

    However, you can download the jar or kar file from the link in the forum posting and put that into your addons folder to install it for now. It’s a more manual process, but it still works.

  2. The marketplace entry for this binding is Daikin Onecta (Cloud) Binding [4.0.0.0;5.0.0.0). You will notice the [4.0.0.0;5.0.0.0) in the title. I think that means the add-on is only compiled to work with OH versions between 4.0.0.0 and 4.x.x.x. Based on this, this add-on does not support OH 5 and therefore will not show up in the add-on store for OH versions > 4.x.x.x.

    In order for the add-on to work with OH 5.x.x.x and show up in the add-on store, the developer needs to either compile a version of the add-on that works with OH 4 and OH 5, put that as the first resource in the forum posting, and change the title of the forum posting to indicate OH 5 is supported or they need to compile a new version and create a new forum posting in the marketplace for OH 5. Or someone needs to fork the add-on and do this on the original developer’s behalf.

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Thanks for the information!