Two instances of OpenHAB?

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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I have an OpenHAB instance at home working on a PI since V1.7 (I’m in V2.3 now).
Just set up a new OpenHAB at work, for the moment controlling some lights (Sonoff T1) on a windows VM that is always running for other programs. With this we can control lights from our computer/smartphone when connected to our router.
I want to start adding new bindings to this, but I don’t want everybody to have access to the information that openHAB will have. I know there is no way of control sitemaps access.

The only solution I could think for this is setting a new openHAB instance for the new stuff and a MQTT connection to have the lights’ control in both sitemaps.
Is there a better solution? How did you guys solve this problem?

Thanks

João

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Two instances would be an overkill type of solution here (to introduce new challenges and problems).
Use some reverse proxy like NGINX (part of openHABian) to separate 2 sitemap URLs
Authentication is about to be introduced to the core soon as well…

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i am using two OH one for my PC to run exec Commands, see status of the PC, USB devics at my room
one is my house sever… alwys on never reboots

i connect them by node red…

only thing to take care of is to have static IP
and making OH start at startup. i had no issues so far… good luck

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Thank you for your replies.
I’m out of office this week so I cannot test anything for now.
I know that two instances is overkill, but this was the only solution I could think. I’m using windows on this machine so NGINX is not an option. I can play with firewalls and security policies by user or computer in the domain
Do you know how soon is “soon” for authentication? I could wait if I knew that somebody is working on this.

João

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NGINX for Windows
http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html
I do not (yet) know how effective that is

I would not hold your breath, this likely to take a few releases.

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Or Apache.

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