Tutorial: Saving habpanel configurations, possible backup uses

[jackdw (Jack De Winter)]

Hope this lives up to Rick’s standards…

It took a bit of reading and experimentation to figure out how to do this, so summing it up here to help.

Best way to design & distribute?

You dont have to “push” it to a device. Just create panel with all needed dashboards on your PC and use the central storage instead of the local one. Then on your device select the central storage as well and select the right panel. Every time you make changes to that panel on your PC again, refreshing on the device is enough to pick up the changes. here a screenshot what I mean with selecting the different storages in case you havn’t found it: [image]

Decently describes how to save panel configurations, but what it doesn’t say is that until you save it to one of these panel configurations, there is no habpanel.config file to backup. Selecting the “Save the current configuration…” at the bottom of that page will create a file under “{habpanel_home}\userdata\config\org\openhab\ui” called “habpanel.config” that you can then backup.

This is also necessary to share your configuration with other devices, but backup was the main goal for me.

Hope this helps someone!

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

I can not see any central storage and when i open habpanel i receive “Connection Lost” bottom left on the screen.

/Mike

[jackdw (Jack De Winter)]

Can you post a picture of the Current storage configuration pane when you open the settings? It is on the left hand side.

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

/Mike

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

Now it is working it was the Map Transformation that broke my habpanel.
When I uninstalled Map Transformation everything works.

/Mike