Playing now with OH 2.5.5 and PaperUI for a few weeks with a couple of things successfully. I want to convert to .things configuration files, but I can’t find authoritative documentation, nor good/simple example .things files from which I could deduce the syntax. I’ve been relying on the openhab.l…

Welcome to the community! I’d agree that the documentation is a little sparse, but before we go there I’m wondering why you want to convert over to .things files if you’ve got ZWave working through PaperUI. There’s nothing wrong with doing so, but if you’ve only been using OH for a short period of …

I personally really like the files as well as it allows me to automate changes across multiple systems. Max, you need to define a bridge thing as well on which your devices will depend. The format is: Bridge zwave:serial_zstick:controller "ZWave Controller" [ port="/dev/ttyACM0", controller_softre…

Hi Russ, I found the PaperUI OK for experimentation, but for scaling up the number of things (as a software engineer) I prefer text files :wink: Fewer clicks and I’ll version-control them with Git.

Makes total sense to me. Stick around long enough and you’ll eventually witness a debate between users who think everything should be in a GUI and users who think everything should be coded by hand. I’m of the opinion that we need both so that we can serve beginners, power users, and everyone in be…

Hi Mark, thanks for your things snippet. After some more fiddling I was able to get this thing configuration to play: Bridge zwave:serial_zstick:88748295 "Z-Wave Serial Controller" [ port="/dev/ttyUSB0", controller_softreset="false", controller_master="true", heal_enable="true", security_networkkey…

You can also use the REST API to automate OH configuration. Install the REST Docs under User Interfaces to see examples & test syntax.

This seems of limited value in the specific zwave context, where the channels are dynamic and you are likely to end up poking around in PaperUI anyway to find them in order to link Items.

I submitted a documentation update to help with this going forward: Add textual configuration sample by theiding · Pull Request #1349 · openhab/org.openhab.binding.zwave · GitHub

[image] m2spring: but I can’t find authoritative documentation, nor good/simple example .things files [image] ZWave Manual Thing Configuration Bindings This write-up provides a “how-to” to actually get this configuration completed for Z-Wave for those th…

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sihui (SiHui) June 30, 2020, 6:00am 10

m2spring:

but I can’t find authoritative documentation, nor good/simple example .things files

ZWave Manual Thing Configuration Bindings

This write-up provides a “how-to” to actually get this configuration completed for Z-Wave for those that don’t want to use the automatic configuration that the binding provides. Z-Wave things can be configured in the same way as other OH2 bindings - for general information refer to the OH2 documentation. Note that at the time of writing, text configuration of things is only available in the development version of the binding - not the master or snapshot versions. At the time of writing, there …

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ZWave Manual Thing Configuration Bindings

No - if you use text files you can’t set the parameters through openHAB (at the moment - hopefully in future this will be resolved as there are some changes being worked on in ESH).

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