Configuration of openHAB

[Spaceman_Spiff (Sebastian)]

@RolfV

Next to that, you can already do everything with textual configuration if that is your preferred way, so why the need to make that the general preferred way?

That is not true. e.g. manual configuration of Z-Wave things does not allow setting of parameters.

@vzorglub

Advanced users have the option of using text based config.

That is what I am suggesting - that the gui is a frontend for readable configuration files.
Currently this is not possible.

@Udo_Hartmann

It’s way more efficient and easier to type a simple line in a text file and duplicate it, then change some parts of it. In fact, all of my configuration is more or less copy&paste, as there are only small differences from item to item (or channel to channel) .

Exactly!

I definitely see the need for auto-discovery and other nice features but why not have these just (pre-)create the configuration files. This way we could have the best of both worlds.