OH3 Best Practice for things and items - files or UI

[hafniumzinc (T)]

@Spaceman_Spiff

Would you be willing to add this to the docs?

I would love to, but because this would constitute more than a minor edit it would need to be signed, so I won’t do it as discussed with Confectrician here.

I think I will make a thread with my own notes which might be useful, but obviously it would only appear on the forum.

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EDIT: Done

[OH3] Semantic Model setup via tags in configuration Items files

Foreword If you are unsure of what the Semantic Model is, or what it can do for you in openHAB 3, then check the documentation here. This post is my notes on creating a Semantic Model via the configuration files (*.items files), rather than the UI. Background I read this post, and used this list in order to work this all out. General The Semantic Model is made up of Items with extra bits of information tagged on to them. These extra bits of information tell openHAB a little bit more about wha…