Blockly openHAB

[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

Is Node-Red the kind of thing you’re looking for?

It works very well with openHAB2

The openhabian script has an option for installing it, or you can do a manual install and just add the openhab_v2 (version 1.1.17) set of nodes

Node-RED as Alternative Rule Engine

“Node-RED is a visual wiring tool for the Internet of Things.” From an Openhab perspective it a visual tool that can replace the builtin rules engine. There is a good discussion thread already running here around Node-RED. The purpose of this tutorial is specifically how to replace the functionality of the Openhab rules engine with Node-RED utilizing @Peter_De_Mangelaere‘s nodes for easily connecting to Openhab. Update 8/18 I have fully migrated my deployment over to MQTT using the built in …