How to generate node ID in openHAB server based on mysensor library

[Basavaraj (Basavaraj Marapur)]

How to generate Node ID openHAB server.
based on [https://www.mysensors.org/controller](http://Mysensor controller) there are saying that node id can be generated in openHAB.but need a more clarification.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Generate node id when request come from MQTT broker

OK, this is doable but it is probably more appropriate for some other server outside of OH to do it for you (e.g. python script with a database). This is not the sort of problem that OH was designed to solve and keeping a running list of all currently assigned IDs will be challenging. The ID needs to be unique, but are there any other requirements? For example, do they need to be sequential, a certain number of digits long, random, etc? That will drive how this would work. If I assume that th…