It was fun while it lasted!

[Andrew_Rowe]

@RockClimber

I read a nice statement here today. Roughly: “The openhab documentation is useless unless you already now how it works.” And that nails it.

I’m going to guess that it is my statement you are roughly paraphrasing from this thread

[SOLVED] Help migrating MQTT 1.x binding to the new MQTT 2.x

@David_Graeff Would it be possible to add an example on how to convert a simple mqtt item to the new binding? I am struggling to understand how to do just that. Here’s my current item: Switch FF_Office_LightSwitch_MotionSensor "Office Motion Sensor" {mqtt="<[broker:zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d000236b6c0:command:JS(occupancy.js)]" } which is something pretty typical IMO. It would be helpful to have a step-to-step instruction on how to create the .things file (which you did have), ho…

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@Andrew_Rowe

I’ve been using software for years and it has been my experience that most the time the documentation really only makes sense after you know how the software works.

‘really only makes sense’ is a lot different then ‘useless’
Anyhow, have you ever paid for support, in my same experience, paid support is usually only capable of helping with the most minor of problems like ‘is your monitor turned on’. In this community, you often get to speak directly to the developer. And quite often, id you’ve truly found a problem with the software, they often fix it right away… That is unheard of in commercial products.