Hey all, I started to set up my complete openHAB2.5 setup on a freshly new setup RPi4 switching to OH3. Now that the system is configured, I wonder whether still to use the textual configuration further (which I liked a lot during all these years) or whether to switch also to the Ui driven way? Is …

Hello, I am migrating to OH3.1 and I’d like to keep textual definitions. However, I am struggling to get my MQTT Setup in a text file and the Main UI definitions. Whenever I modify something on the UI this huge json file is changed: ./userdata/jsondb/uicomponents_ui_page.json All pages go in her…

[image] marco_hoefle: Is it possible somehow to have the main ui config in the conf folder and hierarchic AFAIK no. [image] marco_hoefle: in OH 2.x the mqtt broker could be defined here: conf/services/mqtt.cfg Err, no. That was in OH 1.x (or in compatibility mode). MQTT for OH 2.3 a…

Hi Markus, this didn’t work for me: Bridge mqtt:broker:myUnsecureBroker [ host="192.168.0.42", secure=false ] { Thing mqtt:topic:mything { Channels: Type switch : lamp "Kitchen Lamp" [ stateTopic="lamp/enabled", commandTopic="lamp/enabled/set" ] Type switch : fancylamp "Fan…

[image] marco_hoefle: Should this be possible in OH3.1? Dunno, as I wrote I didn’t try that myself. Possibly the syntax has changed, might be worth to cross-check with these binding docs .

You might look at Roomba980-Python/openhab/things/roomba.things at master · NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python · GitHub as an example for configuring MQTT. The structure looks a bit different from yours. Did work for me.

Following this [image] JensD: You might look at Roomba980-Python/roomba.things at master · NickWaterton/Roomba980-Python · GitHub as an example for configuring MQTT the following worked for me: Bridge mqtt:broker:myUnsecureBroker [ host="192.168.0.42", secure=false ] Thing mqtt:topic:mythi…

Hi Markus, yes this works for me too. This eases the whole configuration quite a lot. Thank you for the input.

[image] mstormi: PS: probably worth to update the binding docs with a (corrected) example like in the blogpost - any takers? I’ve put this into the docs .

The experimental file config simulation of things and items defined in UI is hanging up in the air since April. We all should force @mstormi and openhab band to pay some attention to this, as this is a necessary feature.

[image] 11194: We all should force @mstormi and openhab band to pay some attention to this, as this is a necessary feature. @11194 , I’d appreciate if you could reconsider your choice of words. No one can “force” any of our volunteers to do anything, and the mere suggestion shows a lack of res…

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Textual vs. Ui driven configuration

Setup, Configuration and Use Migration

hafniumzinc (T) July 18, 2021, 11:34am 38

FYI, and as mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, you don’t need the UI to generate the semantic model.