Almost every forum I’ve been in, there always seems to be a thread for this. What do you do, or want to do, with Openhab? First, I’ll start with my story of home automation and finish with what I would like to have as a final product. My adventure started many, many moon ago with a product called …

Hi Ron - This will be my first post on this forum … not yet ready to post anything useful, but I wanted to thank you for yours and mention that I have a very similar background with automation: started with X10 back in the early 90s, grew it significantly using Shed running on a Mac and had a house …

Mr. Reeves, Good to hear from you. Your journey parallels mind almost exactly. I liked the Smartthings hub but did not like it having issues with every patch and update. I wanted an environment that was not reliant on internet access. The learning curve to set thing up was the hardest part on the …

Thanks for your advice Ron … Indeed, things are working fairly well now so I will go methodically through this :slight_smile: …Yes I remember the day that I integrated voice into my X10 set up with a Mac (25 years ago) … it would speak to me the weather and various events … it was so primitive to w…

Thank you both Ron and Jim for sharing. Many of us do relate to such succession of events. Allow me to share my story, then maybe a path forward. I too started with X10 when my son was born about 20 years ago. They had wireless baby monitors with Pan/Tilt controls and other gizmos. Invested a fortu…

I too used X10 devices. I have a shed full of them now. I wonder who would buy these? Software went from heyu cron and command line to MrHouse (perl) to Domotiga to opehab 2.5and now openhab 3. My servers have been Linux always. Ubuntu servers from 8.04 to 20.04. I have migrated them to proxmox no…

Here’s my story: I have an old Z-wave controller that works fine. I wanted to get some zigbee and wifi devices because they seem to be cheaper. So, I bought a zigbee starter kit that came with two lightbulbs. I got a zigbee motion detector and quickly found out that the zigbee controller could not p…

[image] njJim: That’s my story so far. Reply if you find this helpful or if I can explain anything. With OH to provide the great new main UI and even in addition the older sitemaps UI, why did you build your own control webpage ? It’s all (well most) already there …

Good question. Honestly, I was having trouble getting scripts to work in rules, so I wanted to try some external scripts in a browser. Once I got them working I figured I might as well go ahead and make a little web app. I’m still fumbling with a lot of unanswered questions, but the more I tinker th…

[image] mstormi: With OH to provide the great new main UI and even in addition the older sitemaps UI, why did you build your own control webpage ? I’m with Jim, I put together my own little web interface… well… just because I wanted it to look just so [image] njJim: the more I tinker th…