@locke @clinophobic Did either of you have any luck with getting the binding working with OH4? I lost the SD card due to corruption, and when I rebuilt I set it up with OH4 instead of 3 before later realising that this binding wasn’t supported yet. Don’t want to downgrade if I can avoid that.
Previous thread: Does the Balboa binding work with OH4?
yes, works like a charm with OH4.1.
Thanks for letting me know, but I’m still having problems. At the time of install the latest available was Version: 4.1.0.M4 (Build) - I’ve just updated to 4.1.1 and still can’t see the binding in nay part of the UI.
I’ve copied clinophobic’s jar file to /usr/share/openhab/addons (which aready had openhab-addons-4.1.1.kar) and it’s owner/group are both openhab with rwrr 644 permissions, also tried with rwxrxrx 755 , it’s showing in the bundle list in the console. But when I try to add a thing it’s not showing as an available binding to use (/settings/things/add)
I can’t find a .things or .items file definition to test that method. Any ideas what step I’ve missed?
$ openhab-cli info
Version: 4.1.1 (Build)
User: openhab (Active Process 3787)
User Groups: openhab tty dialout audio bluetooth gpio
Directories: Folder Name | Path | User:Group
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OPENHAB_HOME | /usr/share/openhab | openhab:openhab
OPENHAB_RUNTIME | /usr/share/openhab/runtime | openhab:openhab
OPENHAB_USERDATA | /var/lib/openhab | openhab:openhab
OPENHAB_CONF | /etc/openhab | openhab:openhab
OPENHAB_LOGDIR | /var/log/openhab | openhab:openhabian
OPENHAB_BACKUPS | /var/lib/openhab/backups | openhab:openhab
$ openhab-cli console
Logging in as openhab
Password:
Failed to load native library:jansi-2.4.0-6010b72b95509f42-libjansi.so. osinfo: Linux/arm
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openhab> bundle:list | grep Bal
323 x Active x 80 x 3.2.0.202108270027 x openHAB Add-ons :: Bundles :: Balboa Binding
openhab>
I just tried and it’s the same for me: I cannot select the balboa-binding when adding a new thing.
I installed the binding and the thing with OH3 and upgraded to OH4, so I never faced that problem
You could (at your own risk) directly insert the relevant code into the json-file. I copied the part out of my jsondb (see below).
So you would have to stop openhab, make a backup of /var/lib/openhab/jsondb/org.openhab.core.thing.Thing.json
Then insert the following code after line 1 and replace the ip at the end with the ip of you spa. Take care that the format is correct.
"balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa": {
"class": "org.openhab.core.thing.internal.ThingStorageEntity",
"value": {
"isBridge": false,
"channels": [
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:heat-mode",
"id": "heat-mode",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:heat-mode",
"itemType": "String",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Heat Mode",
"description": "Heat Mode",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:current-temperature",
"id": "current-temperature",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:current-temperature",
"itemType": "Number:Temperature",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Current Temperature",
"description": "Current Temperature",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:light-1",
"id": "light-1",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:light1",
"itemType": "Switch",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Light 1, one-level",
"description": "Light 1, one-level",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:temperature-scale",
"id": "temperature-scale",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:temperature-scale",
"itemType": "String",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Temperature Scale",
"description": "Temperature Scale",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:temperature-range",
"id": "temperature-range",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:temperature-range",
"itemType": "String",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Temperature Range",
"description": "Temperature Range",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:priming",
"id": "priming",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:priming",
"itemType": "Contact",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Priming",
"description": "Priming",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:heater",
"id": "heater",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:heater",
"itemType": "Contact",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Heater",
"description": "Heater",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:circulation",
"id": "circulation",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:circulation",
"itemType": "Contact",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Circulation Pump",
"description": "Circulation Pump",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:pump-1",
"id": "pump-1",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:pump1",
"itemType": "Switch",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Jet Pump 1, one-speed",
"description": "Jet Pump 1, one-speed",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:target-temperature",
"id": "target-temperature",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:target-temperature",
"itemType": "Number:Temperature",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Target Temperature",
"description": "Target Temperature",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:blower",
"id": "blower",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:blower1",
"itemType": "Switch",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Blower, one-speed",
"description": "Blower, one-speed",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
},
{
"uid": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa:filter",
"id": "filter",
"channelTypeUID": "balboa:filter",
"itemType": "String",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Filter Status",
"description": "Filter Status",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {}
}
],
"label": "Balboa",
"configuration": {
"host": "192.168.1.55",
"pollingInterval": 60,
"port": 4257,
"reconnectInterval": 30
},
"properties": {
"modelId": "Generic Balboa Unit",
"protocol": "WiFi",
"vendor": "Balboa"
},
"UID": "balboa:balboa-ip:Balboa",
"thingTypeUID": "balboa:balboa-ip"
}
},
Then start openhab and let me know if it works.
@clinophobic and me were planning to update the binding so it can become a part of openhab but that might be a long-term project because both of us never developed a binding. So if somebody with skills wants to jump in: welcome
Thank you @Larsen , that worked, slightly different hottub, but it automatically rebuilt the array with the values I need to match my system (e.g. 4 pumps).
I’m not familiar with Java, but if I get time I’ll see if I can figure out why it didn’t work as expected. Hopefully there are some OH3->OH4 upgrade notes somewhere that might point to the issue.
@Larsen @clinophobic I wonder if it’s something as simple as changing this
Alternatively the commit log from that addon does show a few OH4.* related changes which might lead us in the right direction.
