Ok, fair enough. If I may give you some guidance from a multi year user of OpenHAB. I’ll be blunt, walk away from Sitemaps now. Sitemaps were one of the original UIs back in the day. Other than some labeling and some very complex Item management they do nothing more than teach you the old Table and Row concepts of web development. If you want to learn OH, then immerse yourself in Rules.
Now back to where you should be concentrating, HABPanel! This really is the best guidance I can give you. You see immediate rewards for your hard work and it takes your smart home development to the next level. I was wondering if there were any good up to date YouTube videos of HABPanel that might help you get to working quickly. I found Kai’s video on setting up OpenHAB via the UIs. Skip to 6:55 in the video. This is where he opens a blank HABPanel and begins to show where to click to get started, that’s all I meant by secrets. How to create a dashboard, where to click to get into edit mode. Silly stuff.
I’m really serious, there is way too much old not usable learning in Sitemaps. Go learn HABPanel, you won’t be sorry.
Good luck with your development! We’re here to help if you need it.
Tony