OpenHab Marketing is Lacking

[pauli_anttila (Pali)]

@JustinG

What about the creation of a “demo” binding? Something akin to the magic binding by @wborn (but pared down). It could have one associated simple switch thing, one simple sensor thing, one bridge thing, one switch thing and sensor thing that rely on the bridge to work.

That way tutorials could work off of the demo binding but also list equivalencies. “These steps will use the demo simple items, but if you have Kasa, Hue … etc. then you can install that binding and follow along with your own device.”

I also proposed simulator binding idea few years ago, when Yannic used Nibe heat pump binding simulator features to develop the new UI.

Getting Started with OH3: rewriting the tutorial - 1. Introduction

OH3 could contain dedicated simulator binding, which provides collection of different kind of things. Simulator binding could also provides HW simulation web page for things, where user could see the real hardware behaviour and change the HW state. E.g. TV thing, simulation web page shows real picture of the TV and TV remote controller. When user “plug” power cable from web page, user could see that OH discovers the TV and/or thing is set to ONLINE. User could change volume via remote control…