I’m running openHAB3 on Raspbian Buster. I am gradually moving away from file-based Item and Group definitions as you can’t perform some editing actions on such Items and Groups in mainUI. I have a very tedious job involving editing tens of nearly identical Items and Groups: set the default list i…

I’m also interested in this. I stalled on my transition and left a bunch of trickier items in text files, while everything else moved to MainUI. And now I can’t commit to either direction since they both have different strengths. :wink: It’s just so convenient to be able to copy/paste a line of tex…

You could try to use the batch upload feature (developers options) which allows you to upload a textual configured list and supports some of your details (i.e. semantic properties, state description?, Maybe more?). It should also update existing items with new variables. But would also require to f…

Hi, using the REST-API might also be an option. Joerg

I started from the .items file and added the items from their textual definitions through settings > items > + I didn’t find any examples so far of the new MainUI “metadata” to attach to a textual definition.

That could be helpful for bulk updating existing Items. If I can figure out which REST operations I will need and which payload is required.

@shutterfreak , it should be relatively easy. Go to your Openhab instance (port 8080). Chose RestAPI, search the ITEMS Marker and click “show/hide”. Now you see all possible commands an can even utilize the commands here. E.g. click on the “get item”, click on “Try it out” and you get the whole …

Thanks! It’s actually this thread (referred in your link) which gives the clues: [image] [OH3] Add metadata to Items via configuration files Solutions Foreword In the UI you can easily add metadata to Items. [add_metadata2] This post is my notes on adding the…

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chrismast (chris) June 6, 2021, 8:46am 7

Not sure either it possible, only found this post here, but it is more talking about locations etc. via files.