# Hello and Help!

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/hello-and-help/7965>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Tags:** tellstick, telldus, openhab2\
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/hello-and-help/7965 "2016-02-24T22:02:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![mitsumaui](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@mitsumaui](https://community.openhab.org/u/mitsumaui)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/hello-and-help/7965/1 "2016-02-24T22:02:57Z")

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Hi all,

New to openHAB, but not HA in general! I am really struggling to get my head around the initial setup of OpenHAB, and hoping I could afford some help me to get my underway!

Home mainly consists of Tellstick Net controlled devices (Although I will be building some MQTT devices in the future). As I use Tellstick Net, It seems I will need to use the beta [Tellstick Binding](https://community.openhab.org/t/tellstick-binding-for-openhab2/1582) written by @jarlebh however I have no clue how to install this!

I have got OpenHAB2 up and running, well - of sorts on an Ubuntu VM. Where I get stuck is how I get the specific version of tellstick 2.0.0 installed?

I have so far done the following:

- installed OpenHAB in /opt/openHAB
- copied tellstick JAR from above link into ./addons
- edited ./conf/services/addons.cfg and added ‘tellstick’ into the binding = line
- started OpenHAB (sudo ./start.sh)

The Web interface seems quite buggy but I’d expect that for beta - however whilst I can see some plugins, I do not see anything for tellstick (only that it’s installed)…

I still need to get my head around the setup of the things etc. My idea would be to have a trigger from my phone along with sunset to trigger lights etc.

Also is there a working harmony add-on for OpenHAB 2 yet?

Thanks in advance!