sihui
(SiHui)
January 7, 2026, 3:02pm
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Is there any chance we can get the VS Code Extension not only for DSL, but also for the newly introduced yaml configuration in a future openHAB release?
It’s very handy and fast if you are looking for actual item states (and much more).
It’s the only thing which keeps me from switching to yaml configuration …
DSL example:
yaml example:
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Good point. Imho we just need a json schema and structural highlighting should be there.
We could even upload it to schemastore so that it works across most IDEs.
I’ll definitely look into it in the next couple of days.
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jimtng
(jimtng)
January 8, 2026, 1:42am
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It would be cool if it could also syntax-highlight the upcoming substitution patterns in the data!
Is the vscode extension still maintained? Is the maintainer active here on the forums?
jimtng
(jimtng)
January 8, 2026, 1:43am
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If you’re going to tackle this, remember that booleans are just true/false, not on/off/etc.
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sihui
(SiHui)
January 8, 2026, 10:15am
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First contribution was here:
Major update was here:
Hi all,
Yep, it’s a major update so we need some volunteers for testing.
@christoph_wempe already did some testing while the changes were made.
Kudos to him for the early testing part.
What’s new?
Native token based openHAB 3 auth
I have reworked nearly all of our api connection parts, we have used in the past to access openHAB.
Until 1.0.0 we only had a workaround for connecting to the openHAB 3 api with an auth token.
This has been improved and you can now use a dedicated authToken setti…
I am not sure, but I don’t think so.
hmerk
(Hans-Jörg Merk)
January 8, 2026, 10:50am
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I am afraid tha Kuba is no longer available, he passed away some time ago. @Confectrician is quite busy with other projects atm.
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jimtng
(jimtng)
January 8, 2026, 3:16pm
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I have noticed the absence of some previously active forum members and I often wonder what happened.
Schema and hightlighting is available, see
Good news everyone:
I created a json schema for the openHAB yaml files and uploaded it to schema store.
That means you can now easily get structural highlighting and auto complete for yaml files in your favorite IDE.
We can use this thread to both discuss issues and to share setup steps for IDEs.
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