I have been working on some Progressive Web App development recently for my own personal projects. I’m using React to do so and I’ve been thinking that it could be used to offer a UI App for Openhab. For those unfamiliar with PWAs, there’s a lot of info to find online. But the essential takeaway he…

If you want to add something to openHAB please take a look at the new ui openhab-webui/bundles/org.openhab.ui at main · openhab/openhab-webui · GitHub Its not React, but a brand new ui still in development based of framwork7/vue. I would say it already is or can be made PWA enabled. One of the weak…

I’m currently using openhab3 with the new UI, I find this UI very clear and simple. I think @hilbrand is right, we don’t need a new UI again. And yes, a PWA will be perfect, I think just adding a manifest will do the trick. (I just made a PWA one time on an angular app, maybe I miss something, but…

I’ll have a look at that. However, that’s one more framework for me to learn and I may not have much time to get familiar with it, so it would depend on how easy it is to get familiar with it before I could contribute. PS Is there a quick description on how to install openhab 3 side by side with 2.…

You can install a PWA app without https if it is from localhost. It’s an exception made to ease development.

That’s not correct, the API is at least 95% backward compatible, so no worries. a brand new ui still in development based of framwork7/vue. I would say it already is or can be made PWA enabled. Afaik, it already is! At least @ysc is a big fan of PWA, so again - no worries :sunglasses:.

How do I install OH 3 and start trying the new ui? I went to look around other threads but didn’t find any quick guide to do it.

[image] FunMiles: start trying the new ui? I went to look around other threads but didn’t find any quick guide to do it. [image] Guide: Installing and testing OH3 snapshots/milestones using APT and YUM Development Hi all, .DEB and .RPM packages for openH…

[image] Kai: That’s not correct, the API is at least 95% backward compatible, so no worries. Much of the useful parts are behind OAuth2 authorization with no API Token or other external access implemented.

[image] Kai: Afaik, it already is! Yes it is, the heavy lifting is done by Workbox . As you know to take advantage of the PWA features and other HTML5 APIs you normally need HTTPS but you can use the “Insecure origins treated as secure” flag in Chrome to profit from them anyway: open chrome:/…

I didn’t know this feature. I may give it a try. Does safari have something similar? Otherwise, as long as the OH3 API server is configured to answer requests from anywhere, the PWA can be hosted on GitHub with https and the app can access the local server APIs, no?

Progressive Web App interface

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime

RGroll (Rainer) October 11, 2020, 7:21pm 9