Configuration model 'default.rules' is either empty or cannot be parsed correctly!

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

There you go:

Configuration model 'somefile.rules' is either empty or cannot be parsed correctly!

This comes up quite frequently so I’m creating another topic here so I can reference it later instead of typing the same thing over and over. tl;dr - You can ignore this WARN level log statement so long as it is immediately followed by Loading model 'somefile.rules' or log statements specifically referring to syntax errors in the file. This applies to all files in /etc/openhab2 Full Explanation: OH uses file events to know when to reload files that are modified while OH is running. However…