Paper UI - How to add item to persistence?

[cweitkamp (Christoph Weitkamp)]

Hi @mr.burns,

The easiest way I can think of to configure persistence via Paper UI is to use the Group based persistence design pattern. Idea is to use a group in your persistence strategy. Adding or removing items to/from a group is possible in Paper UI while editing the item.

Please note that we currently seem to have a little problem with JDBC persistence.

MySQL persistence, item stopped updating after adding+removing from group

Hi all. I’m new to OpenHAB, so very possible I’m doing many things wrong. I had temperature, humidity, and battery voltage, logging to the mysql backend on every change, running smoothly. I was playing around with creating an Item type “Group” in the Paper UI, and didn’t really know what they were doing. I added some link between the Temperature item and the new group. Then removed the group. In the MySQL DB, a new item entry for the “Group” is created, and at 15:46:34 the value 22.9 is entere…