Hello Community, I was wondering what is bugging you most because it is missing in the core of openHAB (and Eclipse Smarthome) and what only works with a ton of workarounds and should be part of the core instead. Especially if you compare openHAB to competitors. Of course I’m talking about the OH …

[image] rlkoshak: Thank’s for the video link! Are there any others from the recent meet up in Germany? I must have missed the announcement if they were previously announced. Here: [image] Join us at the Smart Home Day 2018 in Ludwigsburg on Oct 21! Events …

I’d like global functions that can be called from any rule or a way to include a file with a lambda in a rule file. Lambda’s work pretty well for me at the moment but they force me to include everything that uses them in the same rule file and I’d like to break out my rule files in a different way.

[image] SteveDowling: I’d like global functions that can be called from any rule or a way to include a file with a lambda in a rule file. Lambda’s work pretty well for me at the moment but they force me to include everything that uses them in the same rule file and I’d like to break out my rule …

Ah, so I need to change my existing rules? I must have missed that, sorry.

[image] SteveDowling: I’d like global functions that can be called from any rule or a way to include a file with a lambda in a rule file. Lambda’s work pretty well for me at the moment but they force me to include everything that uses them in the same rule file and I’d like to break out my rule …

[image] rlkoshak: I’m hesitant to request this as at best if masks a problem in people’s configurations. Five should be enough, but for some power users it seems not to be. And 2 is definitely not enough for the Quartz thread pool. Especially with the natural human propensity to schedule events…

Having used quite a few commercial ($, and $$$) automation systems, and some OSS ones, there are three big things that have stuck out… especially where use by people who are not extremely technical are concerned: Instability and inconsistency in the common interface bindings, Z-wave being the wors…

[image] dotorg: the need to run non-standard builds for typical things like security bindings in Z-wave. This is no longer the case - this was merged a month or more ago and there is only a single binding.

[image] dotorg: Instability and inconsistency in the common interface bindings, Z-wave being the worst offender. Its not a core OpenHAB issue, but the need to run non-standard builds for typical things like security bindings in Z-wave. It makes it hard to keep up to date on anything because you …

Roadmap to Happiness - What is missing in the core framework

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime

5iver (Scott Rushworth) October 25, 2018, 3:55pm 61

Here are a few more useful links for the new rule engine, which besides the ability to create rules in Paper UI, allows for JSR223 scripting…

https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/rules-ng.html#experimental-next-gen-rule-engine

JSR223-Jython
https://github.com/OH-Jython-Scripters

JSR223-Javascript

You’ll also find some more JSR223 related links and discussion in the forum under the tag jsr223.