One of the proposed goals for OH 3 is the removal of the OH 1.x Compatibility Layer. The Compatibility Layer serves to translate the old OH 1.x package names to ESH package names. Now we are changing these package names once again with the merge of ESH back into OH. Consequently the Compatibility La…

[image] Bredmich: Not only for you but for many users. There are not many alternatives with more RAM. Ok, it seems really many poeple like to do this. For me it isn’t really a server, but when I think server I think of min 8 drive bays and so on. So a small server would be a NUC for me. And …

[image] nibblerrick: For me it isn’t really a server Yeah it‘s not a server in the classic term of servers. As Tobi said, it‘s a smart home server or better defined a openHAB server. In terms of software not hardware. Many users or techies are using RasPis for their smart home installations…

Of course the pi is a kind of server here. It’s just for me no really a server. But by definition it is serving services and is a server and is quite powerful for its size, thinking of what power servers of my definition had 20 years ago! Ok, but OH3 isn’t coming before 2020, either. Is it? …

[image] Bredmich: Maybe the Pine64 but i‘m not sure about the easy setup like it‘s possible with openhabian. I believe openHABian supports Pine64 out of the box. But if not, the manual install of openHABian will work on any Debian based distro. I’ve used openHABian on an Armbian running on a …

[image] rlkoshak: And to directly address CalDav, there has been work in David’s PaperUI-NG study to bring more CalDav capabilities into OH proper which might be suitable for replacing this binding. This really sounds great and would resolve some problems for me! Would you give me a hint wher…

@nibblerrick Would you have a hint in which point within the 192 contributions in that discussion? :slight_smile:

I would have to skim through the thread again. But I think you can do this on your own. The other information in that thread is quite interesting, too!

[image] rlkoshak: Losing backward compatibility does come at a cost in loss of users for sure, perhaps loss of developers too. But maintaining backward compatibility comes at a cost to and I’m hearing from the developers that they are no longer willing to pay that cost. Ok, but let us be more…

I only see 2 bindings left in your case : CalDav + FritzboxTr064 (if we indeed can port all persistence services). All others have an OH2 variant.

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Removal of the OH 1.x Compatibility Layer

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nibblerrick (Nico Bille) February 15, 2019, 7:43pm 88

The UI-study of @David_Graeff you can find here.