I’m a newbie, I’ve been playing around with OpenHab2 for a few weeks/months now and I would like to set up my system.
I have Sonos, Hue and RWE-smarthome components.
What would you guys advise me to do?
Work with the auto-discovery from the paper-ui? Of define all my items manually (via the *.item files).
I have the feeling that the later is a little bit more complex, but gives you a lot more flexibility in the future.
I use items files, but this is primarily because I have a develoment system too which I delete quite often and set up with the current snapshots. The downside is that I cannot edit most of my items via the GUI, I have to use the files-only way.
If you want to have a “production” system where you set up everything once (this can take many weeks, mind you 
) and then just use it, it might be easier to use the Paper UI as you don’t need as much as a deep understanding of the inner workings of openHAB.
Also, slight spoiler: I am working on a tool which allows you to create items files from a running system. It could also work with the jsondb save files of the current SNAPSHOT builds…
I don’t want to rush you… But 
any idea when you will Je able to release it? I plan to work on it during the holidays…
Sometime during the next week or so. I need that thing pretty badly myself
I let OH autodiscover things but manually define the Items in .items files.
So do I!
@hakan
Sounds interesting. Would this work in both directions? From jsondb to *.items and from *.items to jsondb
I did not have a look at the new db at the moment, but afaik this should be some ascii file.
Edit: at the moment i am discovering things with the GUI, and managing items with files.