What do people think of the video? Who’s looking forward to the next release? [Home Assistant vs OpenHAB - Which one is better?]

Ignoring your title - I have to say that I like the video. While he skipping text based configuration & automation (my preferred way to interact with openHAB), he has a point when he points out that it is confusing that openHAB has many different UIs with different feature sets - especially for begi…

Please stay tuned for the release of openHAB 3.0. Some of the “issues” mentioned in the video are addressed and solved: User/Admin role in MainUI First time setup assistent Config editing on mobile devices via UI just to name some new features … If you have a spare server available, you can try…

Hmm, the video was fine in the beginning… we all know OH has a steepish learning curve and the critics on confusing UIs is absolutely valid of course but as @hmerk already mentioned this is being addressed in OH3. However, after the mobile app part , the video IMHO fell completely short. He’s show…

The following is my personal opinion of this topic. I moved from Home Assistant to openHAB a little over a year ago. I watched the video up until his conclusion section. The first goal of any system should be stability. If this person ran HA for over a year, following all releases, with no stabilit…

[image] Bruce_Osborne: He said OH2 was moving forward while development started concurrently on OH3. That did not happen. It didn’t ? Core was frozen yes but binding development continued so not sure what else you expected following his announcement. [image] Bruce_Osborne: I really miss …

[image] mstormi: not sure what else you expected following his announcement. I expected OH3 & OH2.5 to be developed concurrently as he stated. Instead they waited until 2.5 was released & then started on OH3. That did not happen & the users were not informed any differently. At least that was…

[image] Bruce_Osborne: I expected OH3 & OH2.5 to be developed concurrently as he stated. Well I don’t remember the exact words of the original statement but I don’t think he meant to say what you understood. Regarding addons, he kept his word. Regarding core, development ressources were shift…

[image] Bruce_Osborne: I expected OH3 & OH2.5 to be developed concurrently as he stated. Instead they waited until 2.5 was released & then started on OH3. That did not happen & the users were not informed any differently. At least that was my understanding. Then your expectation was wrong or …

OH 2.5.0 was released broken for some new users due to an issue ignored since Milestone2. It almost did not get fixed in 2.5.1 because Kai thought it would need a core change. They found another way to work around the issue. I am keeping my eyes open. I hope to look at OH3 when I get some spare tim…

Just a few first impressions. I’m not sure his comparison between OH and HA is fair. He chose the worst case for OH and what appears to be the best case for HA. Only a couple of bindings require the user to create and configure Channels manually. The majority of bindings do not even require the man…

Will openHAB V3 solve this?

hmerk (Hans-Jörg Merk) September 9, 2020, 7:57am 3

Please stay tuned for the release of openHAB 3.0.
Some of the “issues” mentioned in the video are addressed and solved:

User/Admin role in MainUI
First time setup assistent
Config editing on mobile devices via UI

just to name some new features …

If you have a spare server available, you can try the SNAPSHOT version