Replacing SmartThings API with OpenHAB + OpenHAB-cloud

[denominator (James Bowler)]

@azcoppen

Remote access is the key to making it work at enterprise level IMO. Once you can SSH in, you can add new things to 100 boxes if you wanted to.

I use VSCode remote development for accessing remote sites all you have to do is forward the port in the router.

@azcoppen

Remote persistence: how easy is it to get OpenHAB to store its settings remotely in something like Mongo or Redis? Should be just a case of changing the host? Or better to store locally and mirror/replica to a remote?

Just change the host

@Bruce_Osborne

Isn’t there a SmartThings binding for OH where you could use your hubs as zwave controllers feeding OH? That should make migration a little less painful.

Also this may be of some use.

Remote openHAB Binding

Here a new binding available in OH3 official distribution. The Remote openHAB binding allows to communicate with remote openHAB servers. The communication is bidirectional. The binding on the local server listens to any item state updates on the remote server and updates accordingly the linked channel on the local server. It transfers any item command from the local server to the remote server. It can map any remote thing to a local thing. Through this mapping, in your rules (local server), you…