When adding things through the UI, I end up with IDs like hue:bridge:0011234c6789 for my one bridge, which I’d rather call hue:bridge or hue:bridge:1 as per the plain files [examples]( Philips Hue - Bindings | openHAB . While I don’t need to do much wityh the bridge except when I need to figure out sc…

No, UID’s are not editable through the UI after creation. Only solution, like in openHAB 2, is editing directly in the db.

They definitely aren’t right now. I guess I am asking if this could be considered? The same is true for names which cannot be edited even though it would be simple to do that in code by the UI, and much, much less error prone. For UIDs, the fact that they are represented with two formats in the DB m…

We had this discussion before and came to the conclusion that renaming of UIDs is not going to be implemented, as it would be to complicated. Just for example, changing a UID means changes to all channelIDs and all linked items. So better pay attention when creating a thing, to get the UID right.

I agree, all these links make it even more complicated, especially by hand. So could we get a chance to pick both UIDs and names when they get created in the UI? My issue here is that those have been chosen by bindings during discovery without me having any say. Maybe a good time to do this would b…

I believe you have the option to set the UID for Things when manually creating them. After that point you cannot change them short of doing it manually by editing the database directly. I think this mainly becomes a problem for discovered bridge Things though. Non-bridge Things get their UID from th…

[image] hmerk: changing a UID means changes to all channelIDs and all linked items. and rules, in the various rules systems that may listen to or manipulate Things. And still someone would grizzle because they are using an external script with REST API and why didn’t it redirect the query to…

[RFC] New optional parameter for REST API POST /inbox/{thingUID}/approve opened 10:56AM - 01 Nov 20 UTC (UTC) closed 07:37AM - 26 Nov 20 UTC (UTC) [image] lolodomo …

When manually creating a thing or approving it from inbox, the suggested UID can be overwritten…

When manually creating a thing or approving it from inbox, the suggested UID can be overwritten… I don’t see how? Below is what I see when adding from the Inbox, as well as from the discovered items if I look at the hue binding only. [Screenshot 2020-11-10 at 11.56.56] And of course once this …

You are right, when adding from inbox, the uid field is missing. This was definitely possible in PaperUI at openHAB 2.x @ysc , is it possible to add this missing feature to MainUI ?

Will it be possible to edit IDs in the OH3 UI?

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rlkoshak (Rich Koshak) October 1, 2021, 2:39pm 22

See OH 3 Tips and Tricks, scroll down to the “Editing the JSONDB, a last resort” section.

The JSON DB is where all the stuff you’ve created in the UI gets stored. They are text files in JSON format.