This does not appear to be a permissions issue. The sitemap should load. Getting a blank sitemap with the default I think (not certain) is possibly if you have none of that information is your items file,
But when you copied the demo information into your home.sitemap, did you copy the entire thing and then just change the name to home?
Just an FYI,Sitemaps and items info are CAP sensitive. Can you confirm your sitemap is starting/using a lower s. ie, Sitemap will not work, and needs to be sitemap.
case and syntax are all OK, but to double check I have copied a working items and sitemap to the new server.
What i have noticed is whatever changes i make to paperui, i.e active sitemap (classic & Basic), there is no difference when i open the browser. Classic always shows a blank sitemap and Basic always says there are no sitemaps available.
it appears that maybe openhab isnt looking in the directories where i am changing the files. i am changing /etc/openhab2/sitemaps and /etc/openhab2/items
Its pretty easy to miss a case and syntax issue, but assuming that is all good. Lets back up here and perhaps learn a few things.
What version of OH2 are you using, the Stable or the Beta/Testing release? Since your just getting started here, you can always do either fresh install or apt-get update and apt-get upgrade if you using the beta/test versions.
What program are you using to create and edit sitemaps and item information? If you have Samba installed, its much easier to edit sitemaps in a text editor of VSCode vs using nano or vi in ubuntu.
What are you changing in paperui? You should not have to change anything here to view a sitemap. You can create any sitemap and then just append the url in the browser to few it.
There is no OH Version 4.0.8. Did you install the Stable or Beta/Testing Version? When access OH2 at the /start/index, what version does it show at the bottom?
You should also really get Samba going on the Ubuntu Machine. While Nano is good, you will be MUCH better off accessing the information from another windows computer with Visual Studio Code and the OpenHab Extension. Or even NotePad++ will serve you much better then nano.
I also then Use Bitvise Tunnelier for SSH access into my Ubuntu (headless) machine. to do any command line work.
I âthinkâ it was the stable one. i got the 4.0.8 from the openhab console.
start/index is 2.1.0 with no build number
I use putty for SSH.
If I rember correctly I could never get the Samba stuff working.
It would be nice to do a fresh install and start again, but wouldnât know where to start. Also there seems to be a lack of concise tutorials (For Dummies)
Read the entire Install doc fully then go back re-read and install. And Follow the instructions for Samba at the end of Install. Itâs not too hard, but I remember being new to Ubuntu once and it can seem daunting at first.
And perhaps switch off of Putty for long term use over to Bitvise. It will make copying and transfering files easier for you as well.
Im thinking of re-installing ubuntu from scratch, but i do remember from when i first did it, it was a nightmare getting java installed, is there a tutorial for that.
Change the Service in Configuration, change the Default Sitemap as demo and save the configuration(You can change the configuration of classic UI or basic UI if you like)