Configuration files in docker container - strange behaviour

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Hi all,

I am running a Pi4 with current raspiOS

OpenHab is installed, together with raspberrymatic, mosquitto, influxdb, in a docker compose configuration.

But all of this is not my issue.
My problem is that I don’t understand why my configuration files (e.g. things) are not existing, but there are thins configured in the UI.

configuration of the container is straight forward:

  openhab:
    image: "openhab/openhab:latest-alpine"
    container_name: openhab
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
      - NET_RAW
    volumes:
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
      - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
      - "openhab_addons:/openhab/addons"
      - "openhab_conf:/openhab/conf"
      - "openhab_userdata:/openhab/userdata"
    environment:
      CRYPTO_POLICY: "unlimited"
      EXTRA_JAVA_OPTS: "-Duser.timezone=Europe/Berlin"
      OPENHAB_HTTP_PORT: "9090"
      OPENHAB_HTTPS_PORT: "9443"
      OPENHAB_HTTP_ADDRESS: "192.168.178.10"
      USER_ID: "9001"
      GROUP_ID: "9001"

looking in “system:property” within the container, I see the following configuration:

user.dir=/openhab/userdata
openhab.conf=/openhab/conf

so far so good - configuration seem to be correct.
But when I am looking into the local conf-volume on the host, I am seeing all the folders containing readme files.
But I am not seeing any .things files but there are things configured in the UI.

Am I wrong with my assumption that the UI is storing the configuration in the conf files or is anything else wrong?

2

Look like I found the correct search term for Goolge to identify this strange behaviour :slight_smile:

According to a user in the commnity:

The config you do in the GUI is stored in /var/lib/openhab3/jsondb.” - from the Developer of the AUR package of OpenHAB 3.

So it look like I need to decide if I would like to configure everything in the UI or within the config files.

Mixing both locations make things probably more complicated and dificult to operate in the future.

3

Yes everything you configure using the UI is stored in those JSON files. If you add any textual configuration it will override the configuration made in the UI.

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