myopenhab items are currently not available: Myopenhab not reachable
I have the same problem. Exposed items don’t show up under https://myopenhab.org/items for some days now. Although not shown they still work to some extent with IFTTT. But I cannot edit any openhab applet in IFTTT. I get an error “Options Unavailable” when I want to edit the related item.
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Adding items and the IFTTT integration with myopenhab cloud has been disabled to prevent this free service from getting overloaded and crashing.
Hi, we know if this problem is solved, if not, how can we connect OH to IFTTT. Maybe it’s silly but limiting the number of elements in the cloud could not be a solution
The OpenHAB Foundation cannot sell services. They do not have the money to expand the free service. They have restricted the free service to give it stability instead of having is undependable for ALL users. I am sure if there was a large enough monthly commitment of funds to the Foundation, they would expand the capacity of their cloud service.Money may be silly, but it is essential.
They have released the code so you can setup your own cloud and possibly sell access to it.
ahhh that is all about money … precisely if that is why give a free service of 3,4,5 items and then with fees plus services, such as NO-IP
@sihui thank you very much for your help but unfortunately my level of OH and programming I don’t think I get to understand that
The openHAB Foundation cannot do that without losing its tax-exempt charity status in Germany, where it is based.
I think they hope some enterprising user will setup a cloud service based off the code and charge for access.
And what happens to the long term OpenHAB supporters & users who currently have more items than that?
pay
The OH foundation which provides the service cannot legally charge users so the users cannot pay for the service.
If you want a paid cloud service for IFTTT, perhaps you want Home Assistant.
Care to share how you did that?
I have added additional items manually in a google.items file and used the Google Assistant Tags for them. For example a rollershutter. I added it in the items file as blind.
After this I connected my Google home to OpenHab and this item was directly visible then. In PaperUI I linked this item as a second item to the rollershutter.
For some other cases I have not linked the google item to a thing, I have used a rule then.
Do we have any news about this service?
Ifttt was almost perfect for prezence so even one item for new users can make the difference.
I know many of you may say to use iCloud binding but no…it’s not reliable at all.
What about a message on next update to educate users not to expose unnecessary items and the load can be reduced dramatically. Thank you!
Care to share some code snippets?
One solution to get money for openhab would be banners on the webpage. Banner ads would be interesting for device manufacturer an they could pay per click for the ads. So the service could stay free for users. A limit of 100 requests per openhab cloud instance would be a solution to reduce requests on the cloud instance. But killing the connection to web services like ifttt is not a good way and users will switch to other plattforms like homeassistant. the benefit of openhab at the moment is that it is completely free an offers all features like google assistance, amazon, iftt etc…
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I think they disabled it, same problem for me