Imagine you have a Paper UI that does allow you to edit Things/Items in a textual way (so you have view mode “List” and “Text”). Copy&Paste works. Regex Find/Replace works. Automatic validation before submitting is included. Auto-completion works. Export to files for backup purposes is included. I…

My proposal is online: Next generation design: A Paper UI replacement proposal

If it does write the jsondb on a schedule then we do have a problem. But why would it do that? I don’t see the point. It’s not creating a backup for all of those writes. It Durant make sense to me to dump to the file when nothing has changed. It just increases the likelihood of a write failing and c…

[image] It was fun while it lasted! The only things not possible yet are the ZWave devices; @chris thank you for all the hardwork you put into the binding, is this function possible yet? Yes - this is possible with ZWave in 2.4.

[image] It was fun while it lasted! no automatic discovery Even if we now have automatic discovery with OpenHAB 2, I still like to do it manually. I once used network item auto discovery and what happened? It hardcoded the devices IP addresses - worst way to do it, because they will change. I’…

[image] It was fun while it lasted! The faster and with less resources issue isn’t just a nice to have upgrade. It’s a very significant problem for a large portion of OH users. A problem that must be fixed. And if I understand correctly, the problem lies in code we don’t own so a fix is not nece…

108 messages multiplied by an average of 10 minutes reaction time is around 1080 minutes or the equivalent of 18 hours. A lot of additional documentation, improvements and PRs could have been created. Just imagine …

That’s what I did yesterday :wink: And it doesn’t take me 10 minutes to write this message here :wink:

[image] It was fun while it lasted! openHAB also suffers from trying to be backwards compatible. In one way yes, in other way there are two ways to do things, e.g. for the MQTT binding. There is mqtt1 and there is mqtt v2 If it wouldn’t be so much error prone work to switch between both bindi…

[image] It was fun while it lasted! If it wouldn’t be so much error prone work to switch between both bindings, I would switch immediately. It’s not, I use both seamlessly. The only breaking change is the MQTT action

[image] It was fun while it lasted! It’s not, I use both seamlessly. To be more precise: It is error-prone to misstyping and syntax errors to edit all my items and config to use the new binding. That’s a thing a computer could doe much faster and much better than me. OpenHAB itself works well…

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StefanMUC (Stefan) January 4, 2019, 8:41am 33

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And it doesn’t take me 10 minutes to write this message here