it has nothing to do with timing
similar problems existed last year and in my view… the underlying problem is:
community contribution to the development and improvement of the myopenhab platform … a contribution which is almost non-existent… (either technical or financial)
the same people are struggling to find free time to improve the platform which is enjoyed by more and more (especially with the popularity of voice control) with a very small minority supporting the foundation
disclaimer: this is my personal opinion and I don’t represent the foundation. I am simply a regular member.
I dont disagree with you. The problem is, people are reporting problems for two days now. When noone answers, how are they/we suppose to know anything?
Linking to a year old thread may assume things was fixed sometime back then. At least thats what I assumed.
I know every developer in this are struggling to find free time to improve the system. And I really do apprciate their effort. But if its a question of supporting the foundation, then someone has to speak up! Right now we´re alot of user just trying to understand whats going on. If the answer to getting myopnehab to run smoothly, is to support the foundation, then so be it. But someone has to speak up. I didn´t know, untill lately!
From what I know the team is working hard to fix the issues (I saw them working on it at 6am CET). I don’t know the details or the root-cause of the problem or how long it will take to fix it. If I find out something, I will reply here. I agree that it would be best if there was an “official” announcement.
Regarding support (just using logic and common sense): “The more, the merrier” they say
In general:
The more techies and developers looking into the code of https://github.com/openhab/openhab-cloud and discussing infrastructure options will improve the architecture and performance
The more regular members subscribing to the foundation will provide funds for more computing resources as needed.
I don’t know if the central team needs additional resources in this specific moment to fix faster the problems. I don’t think so. I believe that the challenge is finding free time to troubleshoot and solve the technical issues.
Anyway, many people are affected by this situation and I am sure that it will be resolved soon.
It seems that the workload on the servers has increased significantly recently.
Same here, on iPhone (app) the connection timed out but the access through the browser works fine. There is something strange I noticed: I created a new user and the new user is able to connect on iPhone (app) but if I switch back to my main user it stops working with a timeout again. Its reproducible for me.
Same problem here, running Openhab 2.3.0-1
I can see Items, Event Log and Notifications, but the dashboard fails to load with 504 error as above.
Has been working for over a year up until yesterday.
Same problem here and I have posted an issue in github here https://github.com/openhab/openhab-cloud/issues/221
One more thing, I noticed that notifications are working fine but the only problem is loading the dashboard and it’s only happened after updating the mobile app.
I am not an expert but I hope my point of view will help in any way.
Also having issues connecting with google home but when looking at https://status.openhab.org/ it says there aren’t any issues.
I think the success of Alexa and Google home integrations are putting quite a bit of stress on the myopenhab. I have no idea whether the openhab team pusbishes stats and whether this is a true assumption.
In case it is would it be an option to make these integrations subscription based, even if just a small fee like 1€/month. I’m sure a lot of people using Alexa and Google home would be happy to pay a small monthly fee provided the platform is maintained and scaled properly. Depending on the usage (so some stats would be great) those subscription fees could even be used to pay development resources for those bindings.
Hope I’m not upsetting anyone by suggesting subscription in an opensource environment but it could be a way to keep the model sustainable.
Seems like works everything, but extremely slow. Unfortunately a day before yesterday I’ve noticed this issue before I upgraded my android app. It seems it’s a definitely server side issue.
I agree I am more than happy to pay a subscription for the cloud service. What about paying a third party company to maintain this on behalf of the users?
This goes beyond the realms of open source and a community project. I feel it puts the users in conflict with the volunteers which is an unhappy situation.
Ps. I did try and join the paying community but the joining/payment method is not simple and feels a bit unsafe.
When i go to www.myopenhab.org and make a Login on the Website an then click on the link to remote controll my OH, then everything is fast and smooth.
When i open my browser and browse directly to https://home.myopenhab.org/basicui/app and make an authentication in the browser popup-window, then everything is very slow ?
IOS App is very slow too…everything is slow…why is the first way fast and smooth ?
