This is exactly my frustration. I should follow your example and just bow out. Nothing frustrates me more than thatn freely offering up my help only to be ignored.
This is my last post in this thread.
In the future, you can save us all a whole lot of time but actually leading with your specific problem, not a general complaint about how much OH sucks and a general question.
Your original post states you want to use .things file for EVERYTHING. You don’t mention Hue until the fourth post and then only in passing. At that point you have said and done things to indicate you didn’t really understand key concepts (i.e. calling the Thing in the Inbox a Binding, not appearing to understand the difference, thinking you could just post Ray’s example Things in your setup and that they would do anything for your specific setup, especially control your Hue lights since nothing he posted addresses Hue). Next time then say that you need help with Hue Things. No where in your original posting do you mention Hue. You just complain about how much OH sucks and ask general questions.
When you Bring Hue up again it comes across as a single example. I continued to address your original question: “How to I use .things file for ALL Things?” At this point you apparently switched to “How do I make .things files for Hue?”
The answer to “How do I use .things file for ALL Things?” is still “You can’t, some bindings do not support that.” The answer to “How do I make .things files for Hue?” is in the Hue README. And if you are having trouble, as you saw with job and paul’s postings, we can start to help with specifics.
No, you didn’t. You posted this:
http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/things.html
The generic documentation explaining how Things work and can be defined for those Bindings that support them in general.
The Hue specific documentation is here
http://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/hue/readme.html
I provided no fewer than three ways you can find this README, which all indications are you ignored since you think you posted the link to the Hue documentation along with other things you’ve posted.
And you can see there is copious documentation about how to create and populate a Hue Thing in a .things file. The fact that you
So to summarize, I’m frustrated that you are ignoring my answers, do not has quite as good of an understanding of how OH works as you think you do, and you switched the question half way through the posting. I continued to answer the original one. Finally, you will be more help and those of us helping are far more likely to be patient if ask specific questions and save your “OH sucks” comments for later in the thread.