1 and 2. There is a sitemap builder built into MainUI. Go to settings → Pages → + and select
“sitemap” as the type of page to create. There are a few things that are not supported such as color and visibility. Alternatively you can write it in a .sitemap file.
- The sitemap knows nothing about the semantic model which is wholly encoded using tags and Group membership. However, the sitemap knows all about Items and Groups are Items so some of the semantic model stuff can be used on a sitemap. By default the sitemap will use the label and category set on the Item it’s showing. Or you can override those in the sitemap itself.
Sitemaps have been around since OH 1. The docs are complete and unchanged for OH 3. See https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/sitemaps.html.
Are you thinking about Pages which is completely different. And in that case the Overview Pages get automatically populated based on the model and at least for basic stuff it’s pretty easy to create custom pages just by clicking around. Only if you want to create custom widgets does it get hard.
And I’m not the one who has examples for those. I don’t know much about building widgets.
No you don’t, unless support is only in the beta Android app. I’ve been using MainUI through the Android app for several weeks now. I don’t even have a sitemap anymore.
When you have a model defined:
The Locations, Equipment, and Properties tabs of the Overview Page gets automatically populated.
You can customize these by editing the page (little pencil icon in top right corner) and by setting the Default X widget metadata on the Items. If I wanted to change how that row for the Garage Door looks in that Family Room card, I’d set it in that Item’s Custom default list widget.
That’s correct, it doesn’t know anything about tags. But it does support Groups.