Pilight setup on openhab 2.4

[gdoornenbal (Gerrit Doornenbal)]

• Platform information:
  • Hardware: VMware Virtual machine on ubuntu
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2
  • Java Runtime Environment: openjdk version “11.0.4” 2019-07-16
  • openHAB 2.4

I am :trying to get pilight working, lack of documentation for 2.4. Managed to download and put org.openhab.binding.pilight-1.9.0-SNAPSHOT.jar into the /usr/share/openhab2/addons/ directory, but then the ophab.log shows following:

2019-08-02 12:46:13.936 [INFO ] [thome.model.lsp.internal.ModelServer] - Started Language Server Protocol (LSP) service on port 5007
2019-08-02 12:46:13.965 [ERROR] [org.openhab.binding.pilight ] - FrameworkEvent ERROR - org.openhab.binding.pilight
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.openhab.binding.pilight [205]
Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.openhab.core.binding

    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:444) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1634) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1614) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.doContainerStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1585) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.dispatchEvent(ModuleContainer.java:1528) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.dispatchEvent(ModuleContainer.java:1) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230) [?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:340) [?:?]

2019-08-02 12:46:23.256 [WARN ] [org.apache.felix.fileinstall ] - Error while starting bundle: file:/usr/share/openhab2/addons/org.openhab.binding.pilight-1.9.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.openhab.binding.pilight [205]
Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.openhab.core.binding

    at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:444) ~[?:?]
    at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:383) ~[?:?]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startBundle(DirectoryWatcher.java:1260) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startBundles(DirectoryWatcher.java:1233) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startAllBundles(DirectoryWatcher.java:1221) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.doProcess(DirectoryWatcher.java:515) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.process(DirectoryWatcher.java:365) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]
    at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.run(DirectoryWatcher.java:316) [10:org.apache.felix.fileinstall:3.6.4]

I also put a pilight.cfg into /etc/openhab2/services/, and added pilight into /etc/openhab2/services/addons.cfg.

I am wondering if anybody has this working in a fresh installed openhab instance, and what the best way is to get this done.

[Bruce_Osborne]

Search pointed me to this thread although others are warning the binding has been abandoned.

[pilight binding] how to get it to work with latest openhab

thanks for your answer! As I didn’t want to set up another ESP, I tracked down the problem and I think, I finally found a solution the pilight port is random since pilight version 7.0 if not defined in the config.json (which is not the case with the default config!). So I thought the binding uses the webserver and pointed it to port 5001. Therefore the exception was thrown (unexpected character). I defined the port 5000 in the pilight config.json and changed it in the pilight.cfg (ba…

[gdoornenbal (Gerrit Doornenbal)]

Hi Bruce,

Before i created this topic is already searched for possible solutions. I would jump a hole in the air if i came that far. My problem is that the plugin isn’t even starting, because it says something like:

Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.openhab.core.binding

It looks like it is missing something. i think that it is something what was available in the older version(s) of openHAB, but not in the newer… And i ( as a openHAB newbie) could not find a workaround so far.
So i hope someone can point me in the right direction…

[gdoornenbal (Gerrit Doornenbal)]

Currently i got it working with the http binding. however this is only send-only. But it works. When i find some time i will share this workaround with the community!