Should I start with OpenHAB 3 now?

[sihui]

@tophee

But I’d suggest to clarify that. Also what exactly needs to be configured in the Cloud Connector addon (and where in OH3 I can find it once it’s installed).

Docs in openHAB3 are not ready yet, one reason is it is not released (still a milestone).

My intuition tells me that whatever I select to expose here will be exposed to myopenhab.org (and hence Alexa) and everything else will not be exposed.

You don’t need to expose any items to the cloud for Alexa to work. Due to server abuse this function is disabled anyway.

@tophee

The reason why Alexa discovered the item seems to be that I added Alexa Metadata to it

Correct.

@tophee

So I would imagine that the next step in the instructions would be to add such metadata to relevant items (and to create those items if they don’t exist yet).

Correct. But you won’t find those instructions in each and every binding section as this would be repeated then a couple of hundred times. You should find that in the general doc section.

@tophee

troubles of a new user

There are only a few users yet on openHAB3. I suggest to start reading the wiki posts:

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