Looking for Testers for a new openHAB Device compatibility Database

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Hello openHAB Community,

this is my first post here and I hope you’ll welcome me to the community. :slight_smile:

I’m currently looking for persons that are willing to test an app.

The app again is part of a new openHAB Device database I developed.

History:
When I worked with openHAB the first time (around this time, last year) I wondered which devices are compatible with openHAB, regarding the existing Bindings.

And because there was no real source of information I started thinking about doing it myself.

Long story short: Have a look at www.indie-smarthome.com

Part of the concept of the site is an App that makes the maintenance of the database community based and efficient.

This App needs to be tested now by a bunch of users. I hope that some of you are supporting the idea.

So, if you have a Google account (necessary to test the first App release in the Play Store) then please simply contact me under AppTest@indie-smarthome.com and I’ll add you to the list of the first persons to be part of this new openHAB project.

If you don’t have a Google account, there’s still a way to help. But you need to ‘side load’ the app. And that’s a little more complicated than the ‘Google-Playstore-Way’.

However: Please write an E-Mail if you’re interested.

Greetings from Cologne!

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There is already the community maintained Z-Wave device database pf 1300+ entries used by the z-wave binding. Some entries cover several device variants.

Did you get the proper permissions to use the openHAB logo & trademarked name? @Kai personally owns the name.

The page for logo reuse implies there are no permissions granted yet.

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Thanks for mentioning this point.

Yes I spoke to Chris (and I also point to his great work on the website). He send me his data a while ago, and that founded the fist source of information in the new database.

Regarding the logo: I think the relation to openHAB and the purpose of the new DB is worth showing it. But, of course, if there’s reason to complain, i’ll remove it!

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That data is also available read-only via an API. That is how it gets exported currently for the binding.

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ATM, we cannot grant permission for using the logo within 3rd party Apps, as the process for registering the logo is not finished by today.

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