let’s continue the miniseries dedicated to mqtt, within the openhab in a nutshell series and see how to install the open source broker mosquitto on windows
let’s download the installation package from the official mosquitto website and install it on our windows system. then we run it with the default options and through mqtt explorer and command line tools we perform connectivity and message sending/receiving tests.
I decided to switch to text file configuration. i like main ui but when you reach a big number of items to manage i think it’s better using text files than ui.
For this purpose I am writing a software that will be able to automatically recreate the files via api, reading things, channels, groups and items from the openhab configuration.
I’m developing it and it’s written in php; using a container docker for its execution environment.
New video of the openhab in a nutshell series. The miniseries dedicated to mqtt continues; this time let’s see together how to install the mosquittomqttbroker on openhabian with a standard linux installation.
new video of the openhab in a nutshell series. last mini chapter dedicated to the mosquitto mqtt broker; let’s see together how to install the mosquitto mqtt broker as a docker container, using portainer.
Maybe I’m a “keyboard” friendly but for me it’s easier to manage multiple objects with files…
With Visual studio code and a simple search & replace I can do a lot of stuff
Short video to show a problem i had on my fresh installation of openhab 4.2.
The current time used by openhab for logs and rules invocations was wrong by one hour. the problem was the time zone not set correctly.
It seems that setting the correct time zone on the operating system and in the openhab settings is not enough, but an additional step is needed to definitively solve the problem.
Short video update on my ui2files software, which is used to migrate the configuration made via main ui to text files.
I have inserted some changes to handle the lack of management of aggregation functions on groups and the management of profiles in the configuration of links between items and channels
Finally, let’s upgrade influxdb from v 1.8 to v 2.0 using docker containers and the official procedure.
After duplicating the influxdb 1.8 container, let’s create the container with influxdb 2 image, following the upgrade procedure for data and configuration.
openhab in a nutshell with raspberry pi 4 - 29. user interface introduction
Let’s resume the openhab in a nutshell series, addressing the topic of graphical interfaces from the end user’s point of view.
In this video i make a brief introduction on all the types of pages available in openhab, with particular attention to the default home page, closely linked to the #semantic#modeling of the system
Let’s introduce the sitemap, the historical user interface of openhab, describing its features and peculiarities that make it still useful for many use cases.
sitemaps are used mainly in mobile app, both ios and android, because they are very lightweight and clean.
