That’s what I thought this argument was gonna come to!
But also my time is not for free! I have had a working system with about 150 items.
You’ll confirm to me that this isn’t set up in a few minutes. It’s the third time a simple update has paralyzed the entire openhab system!
All the holidays I’ve been working on trying to rebuild the system. At some point I gave up frustrated and wrote the thread above.
And yes I have a backup of my old system. But it is useless! When I restore it and update it again, I will sureley at the same point as I’m now. And not to update a system is a big safety hazard.
And I’m not the only one! The whole forum is full ot threads with complaints about failed updates
https://community.openhab.org/t/solved-issues-after-update-to-version-2-4-0/60532
https://community.openhab.org/t/after-upgrade-to-oh2-3-zwave-binding-not-working-after-upgrading/45592
https://community.openhab.org/t/solved-mqtt-not-working-after-update-2-2-2-4-mqtt-action-missing/60551
https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-after-upgrade-to-oh-2-3/45580
https://community.openhab.org/t/solved-user-interfaces-not-loading-after-update-to-2-3/46142
… and so on…
And please have a look on https://github.com/openhab/openhab1-addons/issues/5507
Here a desperate user is presented as not being able to read, but there is no reference to “manual installation” on the mentioned page and the links on the mentioned pages are broken.
By the way, this problem was one of those I also failed to solve and the consequence of the user is exactly like mine - do it yourself.