Myopenhab.org items not showing

[sihui]

@DanE

what is the correct java version?

That’s why I posted a link to the installation prerequisites.

[DanE]

Wow, don’t know how I could miss that one. Sorry.

So I do have the correct Java version. Any other suggestions?

[Thedannymullen (Danny mullen)]

I had some issues initially setting up also. In the end I don’t really know what my issue was other than being a noob back then. Sometimes I tend to be impatient and not let things run the course they should, making changes faster than updates happen.

I have switched to hue emulation and other than Alexa randomly telling me the kitchen light does not exist. It works great. This is an alexa problem not an openHAB problem.

I do however use my openHAB on my google device.

One tip I have to offer is check https://alexa.amazon.com/ from a laptop. Go to smart home then devices. See what’s there. I have had much better luck using this to discover devices verses my actual echo. Not sure that I can explain this again an alexa issue. I just know sitting in my bedroom working on the laptop I have asked alexa to discover devices. She will run discovery then say “no new devices”. I immediately click open a new browser and click discover devices and all works.

Only suggestion I have at the present moment. I know it can be frustration but when it all works you will be very happy! Once it all works it will generally keep working with no issues!!

[yortiz1979 (York)]

Hi Kim, just to thank you for your advise on this one, with this info and just another change i saw on another post i made it to work!! thanks again. I will be posting my solution on the post i crated as advised for yourself!

[Fixer (Alan Drury)]

When might the IFTTT integration be working again? I am trying to set up integration with my Samsung washer via IFTTT and OpenHAB Cloud but can’t get OpenHAB Cloud (or therefore IFTTT) to see my “Washing Finished” switch item.

[sihui]

@Fixer

When might the IFTTT integration be working again?

Here is a workaround, although not easy to implement:

How To: Integrate Custom openHAB Cloud with IFTTT

Hi all, New to the openHAB automation scene, and I am in the midst of setting up my custom openHAB cloud with IFTTT, since it doesn’t seem to be working on the openHAB cloud hosted at myopenHAB. There doesn’t seem to be a guide on how to integrate IFTTT with a custom openHAB cloud, so I figure I’d pay it forward by writing down the steps I took. First things first, in case you are confused, you cannot use the well-known openHAB IFTTT service. That is hardcoded to use myopenHAB. Instead, you’re…

[Fixer (Alan Drury)]

Thanks for sharing! Although as you say, looks like a lot of work to set it all up

[Matthias_Marx]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I’d like to expose some virtual buttons to MyOpenCloud to use with IFTTT but I can’t find them.

I changed the state and there are correctly exposed but they don’t show up. Any hints?

[sihui]

@Matthias_Marx

Any hints?

That feature is disabled currently:

Myopenhab not reachable

Want to give an update. Our MongoDB has grown very large and is toppling over on it self with item updates and access logs being pushed by the 20k+ OH instances constantly. My guess is there is a lot of tuning we can (need) to do to make this better, but that’s going to take some time. Until we can get that figured out, i have made a few changes I hope will dramatically improve the performance and availability of the service, with the tradeoff that IFTTT triggers will not be working during th…

[pmm (Paul M.)]

@DanE, you might have gotten this to work, but just in case, let me share what made it work for me. Once I set the Mode to “Notifications & Remote Access” in the openHAB Cloud connector, my items, that had the tagging, were discovered by Alexa. And yes, if the Mode is set back to “Notifications”, Alexa will loose access to the items.
To be honest, I do not feel that great to have all my items scanned by Alexa via the openHAB home skill…

[DanE]

Wow, now I put so much time into this and didn’t get it to work. so at some point I gave up for the moment. This week when I checked everything again, I noticed that all my items are there. Now I can use all my items with alexa without doin any changes. very weird!

[varneyb (Bruce Varney)]

These both refer to making items files.

What about devices that are discovered within PaperUI?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@varneyb

What about devices that are discovered within PaperUI?

They all need to be linked to Items.

[varneyb (Bruce Varney)]

Of course - but if I create the items in PaperUI and put the “Lighting” category on them, I don’t see them in Alexa. Is it required that I create the items in an items file rather than in PaperUI?

[sihui]

@varneyb

Is it required that I create the items in an items file rather than in PaperUI?

No, but for PaperUI created items you need to tag via REST Api:

[SOLVED] Alexa not discovering devices - yes one of these threads

@Adam_Garrett You’ve tried to add metadata as a tag. Please try this: In Paper UI, make sure that the Addon Misc -> REST Documentation is installed. Open the REST Documentation: http://…:8080/doc/index.html Open items, PUT /items/{itemname}/tags/{tag} Enter the name of the item and then the tag and press “Try it out” where {tag} is: Switchable [Screenshot_20190917-210422] Your “item” in rest api should result like this: "tags": [ "Switchable" ],

[Rar9]

Hi folks,
I tried many things since a fresh installed openhabian image, but are not able to get my items displayed under Myopenhab.org… all I see that my device is online, but no item show no matter how often i change status.

https://myopenhab.org/rest/items Shows these exposed items that I have enabled via GUI and also others items via .item File to try both ways. But both have the same effect.

Do I need a sitemap? or anything else like special ports?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

1. Why do you want to expose these Items? The only reason to do so is for IFTTT. If you are not using IFTTT, don’t expose Items.

2. If you search the forum, you will see that exposing Item through myopenhab.org is turned off. Too many people expose all their Items and don’t even use IFTTT and the server can’t keep up pending figuring out a fix.

[Rar9]

I need this so Google Home sees them

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

No no no no no! No you don’t! This is why they had to turn it off.

From the docs right under Requirements:

Items DO NOT need to be exposed to and will not show up on myopenHAB.org, this is only needed for the IFTTT service!

Please go back and read the docs. Exposing Items through the Cloud Connector has never been required for Google Assistant nor Alexa integration. That is done through tags or metadata, as documented.

[Gensys (Kevern Upton)]

@sihui

That feature is disabled currently:

Hi rlkoshak, I have many clients who want to use openHAB and is an excellent market penetration to get adoption going in my country. I am however, saddened to see exposure of items for IFTTT still disabled by myopenhab cloud now for what seems to be over half a year now. Is openHAB foundation planning to re-enable this feature ever or not ?