First hour question - sorry! Add a Sonoff Thing

[JustinG]

Welcome to OH!

“Thing” in this case is a specific OH term referring to the objects which allow you to interact with specific bindings.

You may find it helpful to go through the getting started tutorial to see all these terms in action:

Getting Started - Introduction

It may also help to refer to this glossary on occasion while you’re getting the terminology down:

openHAB Glossary

Perhaps it is just my years of experience teaching a vocabulary heavy subject, but it seems to me that many of the beginner questions that show up on the forums (and even some of the more advanced ones) result from struggles with all the terminology. Many beginning users stumble when attempting to use docs and even users who have read the help docs sometimes come away with only partial understanding unless they are already fully steeped in the language of openHAB. With the goal of alleviating …