MainUI User Interface for openHABian Config

STSC · November 19, 2022, 6:03am

Hello,

Are there currently any plans that there will be the same HTML MainUI User Interface for openHABian Config like is already available for the Administration Area.
I think especially for non-Linux users, they don’t feel that comfortable using the current openHABian Configuration Tool. I think it would be good to have in the MainUI certain features like Update, Backup. Especially for Backups you could just download them in the Browser.

mstormi · November 19, 2022, 7:49am

No.

github.com/openhab/openhabian

Web based menu

opened 12:44PM - 11 Oct 20 UTC

mstormi

help wanted openHAB related base system nice to have

Following up on https://github.com/orgs/openhab/teams/openhabian-maintainers/dis…cussions/3, we should "upgrade" openhabian-config to provide a Web interface rather than the current shell CLI (or in addition to it). This will allow users to get along without SSH, bash etc. It'll also allow for greater UX since we can integrate with OH's admin GUI. As an intermediate step to take effect as per today already, all features should be made to work in 'unattended' AND 'interactive' mode. They **must not** retrieve individual values from openhabian.conf but leave that to a routine at the very beginning to source the complete conf file and set all variables in one go. This part then is to be replaced by the web interface. Potentially any web framework would then "just" need to collect input from users (more or less copy'n paste what the current code does in interactive mode) to set the variables and finally execute the existing install routines in unattended mode. For your attention: I've updated [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). Any helping hand from a web frontend designer will happily be taken !