I think this distro made a huge step forward in terms of reliability of the startup behavior and many of the bindings are already in productive use by many users and thus equally tested and stable.
I’d specifically like to mention that HABmin is now included as an official (but optional) user interface for openHAB (thanks @chris!) as well as HABPanel, which is in an early, but very promising phase and thus so far only included as an experimental feature (activate experimental features in Configuration->System first, before it appears in the addons list) - a big thanks to @ysc for this fantastic UI, I hope it will continue to evolve this nicely!
Besides these functional additions, we now also have working debian packages (thanks to @theo!) and the new documentation website is getting up to speed thanks to @ThomDietrich taking the lead on it.
As people regularly ask about the plans for a final 2.0 release: I cannot promise anything myself, since I very much depend on the help and the contributions from all of you, but my personal goal would be to finish the most critical missing parts of openHAB 2 by the end of this year, so that we can declare GA by early January. In the coming weeks, I will try to come up with a list of topics that we still need to address for this and I count on you to then help ticking the entries off quickly - so stay tuned!
After a few weeks of struggling with OH2 (mostly due to my own inexperience) , I can only come to one conclusion: what an impressive step this is for openHAB. Big thank you to all the people that made this possible…
I have tried to activate HABpanel and even with your instructions I was unable to make it available under Services… is anyone having the same troubles as me?
I don’t see it listed under interfaces…Clicking on Configuration -> Services only shows Basic UI and Classic UI, Extensions->User Interfaces shows the following:
Basic UI ui-basic - 2.0.0.b4
Classic UI ui-classic - 2.0.0.b4
CometVisu ui-cometvisu - 2.0.0.b4
HABmin ui-habmin - 2.0.0.b4
Paper UI ui-paper - 2.0.0.b4
PHP support for CometVisu ui-cometvisu-php - 2.0.0.b4
(with Basic, Classic and Paper being the only installed UI’s)
Great news guys!
I have to say I’ve been avoiding 2.0 up until now due to the “big unknown” but after having a look at the new documentation website I’m feeling I could probably manage setting it up on my new windows server… So that’s a big bit of positive encouragement from me! The “beginner” type documentation will be very instrumental in getting more people to make the switch from OH 1.x to 2.x… Keep up the great work!
One can also add the “Rule Engine (Experimental)”, which adds it to the main menu. I will play with this no matter what the answer is, but what stage is this at? ie is it functional, should we log bugs against it?
That’s how it is with the experimental features (and I think the setting says that you need to activate the online repo, right?).
Almost, but not quiet
It is still under development at Eclipse SmartHome - the engine itself is working pretty well already, but there aren’t many “modules” available yet, which makes it a bit useless for users.
I updated from 2.0b3 to 2.0b4 by replacing the runtime directory with the zip downloaded from bintray. When I go to add extensions from Paper UI, nothing shows up. Doing a search appears to do nothing as well. See below.
