I just love how darn reliable and “set it and forget it” this is. I’ve been using openHab via openHABian on this Raspberrypi 3b for maybe 6+ years. Everything always works and the wife acceptance factor (WAF) is high. She likes it and it does everything we need, and well.
I have a new Rpi4-4GB with OpenHAB 4.x installed that I have been taking my time migrating because… well, this thing works so good and reliable and I haven’t had the motivation/need to expend the energy to port over to 4.0 and start over. (Maybe I will wait for 5.0 which is coming soon
July if it all works out as expected. Though given relative ease in the upgrade between OH 3 and OH 4, I would expect the same between OH 4 and OH 5 so it would not be wasted effort to start the upgrade now.
Snap!!! I would have beaten you with my OH 2.5.12 if we didn’t have a power outage 227 days ago and I fully agree, openHAB 2.5.12 on my RPi 4 has been running and running, totally reliable and most importantly for me, also without constant OH and OS update shenanigans, possible bringing breaking or code adjusting issues
Nonetheless I’m currently starting to port everything to OH 4.3.2 on a RPi 5 in tandem, stumbling across a few roadblocks, but generally finding it quite manageable, also due to the fact that I mainly use MQTT for most of my devices already in OH2, making me less binding restricted. but it also means that OH4 so far doesn’t give me any obvious advantages over 2.5.12, from what I have seen so far.
Still a few DateTime hiccups though …
A backup image of the 2.5.12 openhabian is in a safe drawer, just in case