Where are config files on Mac?

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hi,

I’m new to OpenHab and I started my first test on a Mac installing OpenHab 2.5.1 stable.
Went to Paper UI and configured bindings and items.

Now, I understand I need to edit the text config files to move further but I can’t find them on my Mac.
Searching for *.items files on my entire HDD does not produce any result.

Thanks for your help.

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What document did you follow for installation? At least on Linux, the file location is dependent on how it was installed.
The environment variable $OPENHAB_CONF should point to the configuration folders.

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You only will find .item files for stuff that you created manually. In case so far you have used Paper UI only these items were stored in the mongo database - not in the file system.

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Thanks Worfgang,
This is the explanation. Will OpenHab use both the item I will create manually and the ones which are in the MongoDB?
Is the following path correct for the new .item file to be created?
~/openhab/conf/intems
there is already a readme.txt in this folder

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Thanks Bruce,

I used the new user tutorial until now. https://www.openhab.org/docs/tutorial/
Typing “echo $OPENHAB_CONF” in my Mac terminal does not produce any response.

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OK, looking at that, I would guess ~/openhab/conf
In other words, in the openhab/conf folder off your home directory.

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Yes, both ( those which are set up by using the UI and those which are setup by editing text files ) are used.

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Last question, is there any way to view the syntax of the items or things that were create in the Paper UI and stored in the MongoDB?

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Using the REST API? Install restdocs to make it easier to figure out.

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In addition to @Wolfgang_S reply you will only want to create one item in either the UI or files but not the same item in both locations.

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To have a look to the mongo DB content you may try this:

  • login to a shell on openhab computer / raspi
  • connect to mongo db
    mongo -u YourUserHere -p YourPasswordHere openhab
  • db.items.find()
  • result looks like:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c7abcf4c5d4f7bb036c2dba"), "last_update" : ISODate("2019-03-02T17:27:16.778Z"), "prev_status" : "", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "RXV685Main_Zone_Zone_channels_Power", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-03-02T17:27:16.755Z"), "status" : "ON", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c7abcf4c5d4f7bb036c2dbc"), "last_update" : ISODate("2019-03-02T17:27:16.864Z"), "prev_status" : "", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "Verstaerker", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-03-02T17:27:16.854Z"), "status" : "ON", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c7abcf4c5d4f7bb036c2dbe"), "last_update" : ISODate("2020-02-03T18:06:47.754Z"), "prev_status" : "0", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "RXV685Main_Zone_Zone_channels_Volume", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-03-02T17:27:16.974Z"), "status" : "30", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c8e2c2543b0954b033fc143"), "last_update" : ISODate("2020-01-28T20:25:53.752Z"), "prev_status" : "HDMI2", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "Yamaha_Input", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-03-17T11:14:45.725Z"), "status" : "HDMI1", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ce872b98685d27a035ff53b"), "last_update" : ISODate("2019-05-24T22:39:53.502Z"), "prev_status" : "", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "Amplifier", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-05-24T22:39:53.488Z"), "status" : "OFF", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5dfb4fa824a4a1ba03fcd881"), "last_update" : ISODate("2020-02-03T18:06:46.300Z"), "prev_status" : "OFF", "openhab" : ObjectId("5c4f58ed6cbc6d0a04d42b9b"), "name" : "Rule_TV_einschalten", "last_change" : ISODate("2019-12-19T10:23:36.791Z"), "status" : "ON", "states" : [ ], "groups" : [ ] }