Json db missing some items?

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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Today I added two new lights to my openhab 2.0: one switch and one Fibaro Dimmer 2.

I have linked items and can control the dimmer and switch just fine from the openhab UI.

I then want Google Home to be able to control them via Hue Emulation so I stop openhab, edit the file org.eclipse.smarthome.core.items.Item.json and add tag “Lighting” and a label for the switch. It then works fine with Google Home.

But I can not find the dimmer anywhere in this file. What am I missing?
My other light switches are there and can be edited.

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Not sure if I am confused of the workings of Paper UI or if there is actually a bug.

When I have Simple Mode enabled for Item Linking in the system configuration, the items are not added to the file org.eclipse.smarthome.core.items.Item.json.
But when I now disable Simple Mode and link items manually (but with all naming etc using the defaults) the items actually pops up in the file!

So, solved for me at least.

3

That’s correct working - in simple mode items are not ‘real’ - they are only temporary and you can’t edit them or save them, so they aren’t saved in the config database.

4

Thanks for clearing that up, simple mode is off from now on!

I still don’t understand the reasoning though. Why are the simple mode items not ‘real’?

5

I’m not sure of the rational - sorry. IMHO it’s not particularly useful as you can’t change labels or anything, so I personally prefer not to use it.

6

I agree.

I wonder if there is a simple way to find all those items which are only temporary. I would then create them manually.

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If you disable simple mode, then you won’t have any such items and you will just need to create them manually yourself which is pretty simple with the UI…

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They show up in the REST API if you have it installed, e.g. http;//localhost:8080/rest/items