KNX 2.0 separate .things files / best practice?

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Dear Community,

right now I am at the very last steps of migrating from knx 1.0 to 2.0.

My setup (about 957 GAs) on knx 1.0 was separated in different .items files:

knx_alarm.items
knx_rollershutter.items
knx_light.items
knx_contact.items
knx_system.items
…

One big advantage was, that if I was working on new stuff e.g. in knx_contact items and I messed up with the content or syntax, log files said “ignoring knx_contact.items because of errors” but bus connection, rules oder other knx items remain functional.

With knx 2.0 the bus connection is down until knx.things is free from errors again. Is there any way to test new things but keep the remaining knx stuff functional?

Thanks,

Julia

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Well, bring them up one-by-one :wink:

When using the things file, you have to use one file, as the bridge must be placed to the top.
When adding things one by one, you will see “big errors” at once, and “small errors” won’t cause openHAB not to read the things file.

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Hi,

have a look into this:

Excel editor for Things and Items

I created this, after I started to confuse myself to work on two files.

Best
Michael