openHAB Designer dont work

[UglyKidJoe (Craig)]

I started down this road to nowhere because I wanted to install the gauge widget from the Eclipse Marketplace where I would have to drag-and-drop the component.

But @marcel_erkel, you gave me a great hint about touching a file. I get the no-entry sign because the workspace is unavailable. But if I open a blank file I can drop the component to it…

I don’t know if the widget would work doing it like this though. I guess I first need to create an empty file in the ‘addons’ folder and drag the item to it, but what would the naming conventionn be? When I have some time I’ll experiment with it and post here if it works

[jayloo]

Dear sihui, your link here is not working anymore!
My designer doesn’t let me choose the configuration folder.

Error: “Not a valid configuration folder”

This share is on a synology. Designer is on my windows. It does not work with a mapped share (W:), nor over the “Network” path. I read about openhab_default.cfg missing, but I do not find it. Any idea?

[sihui]

@jayloo

your link here is not working anymore!

That is correct, the ES Designer is deprecated.
Try Visual Studio Code with the openHAB extension instead:

VS Code openHAB Extension!

@kubawolanin This is really excellent! I just installed it myself for the first time on my Mac to see what the fuzz is all about Even though we do not yet publish it in the official extension store, I would actually like to mention it as a great new feature (and possible alternative to the Designer) with the 2.1 announcement - any veto against this? Another question would be, if we should have a dedicated category here in the forum to discuss it - maybe a new entry in the Apps&Se…

https://docs.openhab.org/configuration/editors.html#openhab-vscode

[jayloo]

Many thanks. Works.