openHAB 3 Installation & Setup | MQTT Broker Setup | openHAB 3 First Setup | OPENHAB Tutorial

[@taz-dev]

Finally a good tutorial in English. Nice video keep them coming.

[@_openHAB]

Thank you @HrvojeKozmus 🙏

[@brodshooter]

Please keep the videos coming, you are a great teacher.

[@_openHAB]

thank you ;-) !

[@Plyschbjornen]

Excellent, I was looking for a guide to included Tasmota switches in OH3, and stum led upon this. I couldn't be more satisfied. 👍🏾

[@sarelwagner1099]

Love your work man, and your British is cool 🤙🏻

[@_openHAB]

Thank you!!! 🙏

[@ubeaut]

Great job. Your English is way better than my German. :)

[@_openHAB]

thanks @Greg 🙏

[@ubeaut]

@@_openHAB One thing I don't understand is the helper libraries. Why would i want to use them and how do I use them or load them etc. A video of that later would be great. I only use the UI and only use the javascript to write rules. Do I really need them? I have read the documentation and still don't understand.

[@tcpipchip]

The best teach of all videos that i have seen!

[@_openHAB]

Thanks so much!!!

[@johna4001]

Magic! Thank you some much, the vid helped me over the first set up hurdle 👍

[@lucianbuzatu4602]

Thanks for the video, please do more videos like mqtt sensors items (temp, humidity, power metering), alexa binding, node-red integration and so on :-). Much appreciated your effort.

[@Greg-kk1wb]

Good job on the video! Well explained.

[@grant9942]

Great video, thank you! It would be very helpful to have a video to show how convert from openHab2 to openHab3 especially how to convert items from MQTT1 to current MQTT. I have been using openHab since version 1. I gave up on OH3 because I couldn’t figure out how to convert the MQTT items.

[@_openHAB]

Hey Grant, thank you!! We’ll already working on some more Videos so stay tuned. But I’m sure you’ll get it done ;-) The commands are basically the same. For now u could check the Topics I’ve used for my Sonoff / Tasmota Powerplug and where to put the Topics. If u got more questions don’t hesitate and leave a comment;-) Greets

[@pourrisson76]

Very useful, many thanks for this tutorial

[@trevorwatson5754]

Thanks for your intro to openhab3

[@_openHAB]

Thank you!

[@rajilsaraswat9763]

Nice video. Would like to setting up the semantic model a bit more in detail.

[@_openHAB]

thanks @Rajil sure enough there will be more detailed videos for the semantic model for example ;-)

[@MDARLtd]

@openhab I'll second that. I don't understand where to start with it, or what a "good result" looks like.

[@MikaBackstrom]

Awesome video! Am looking for a project soon on my own and this will be most helpful to get going :)

[@mathgrts]

FINALLY!

[@KaiSteinbach]

That's a very slick looking desk and room lighting, mate! Kudo's on the video!!! One doubt, if I may: doing all the MQTT manual typing (topics etc.) to get a wallplug to work looks pretty cumbersome - I'm really interested why one would do this. If your given device has a native OH3 binding (like Sonoff or Shelly or Z-Wave), searching and adding it from the Inbox would usually get you all the device's channels completely automatic, right? In which situation is MQTT the better way, and in what other scenario are the other bindings a better choice?

[@_openHAB]

Hey Kai, thank you 🙏 😊 Sure you can use the Binding for your Device if it’s available, but sometimes it’s necessary to choose MQTT. It was not meant to be a MQTT Tutorial it was just an example. Some people coming from OH2 or older prefer the manuall MQTT integration;-) but there is not really a positive or negative side. If the Device supports a Binding go for it. Sometimes devices don’t have a Binding (yet) so the only way would be to integrate it with the textual style. I think it’s a good way to understand MQTT too. Thanks again and greetings to you!

[@erikcramer]

@openhab Could you make a video about the configuration, and setup and best practices ? In regards to use with for instance Zwave?

[@derekhellinga101]

I followed the website to install ... it is not clear that you have to edit the config file. man... hours. finally thought I will check youtube if anyone did a manual install. and found this. well done .. but please update your website too!!

[@_openHAB]

thank you Derek, ok i´ll let the guys know to update the site! Greets

[@gert2373]

Great video

[@_openHAB]

Thank you!

[@musc3]

Stupid question here. Can you setup OPENHAB to control studio flash?

[@uweschnabel5239]

Thanks a lot for the video. German too and appreciate the effort. I would like to connect the openHAB gateway running as an edge device (like your local rpi) to a cloud. I was hoping the mqtt binding could help but as it was explained in your video the mqtt broker is rather used as a connector to your items (south side instead of the north side connection I am looking for). Is there a way to connect the openHAB gateway to some other cloud than just the openHAB cloud? If the cloud had an mqtt gateway the local edge device of openHAB would (just) have to use the mqtt connection. A bit like connecting a local Eclipse Kura gateway to a Kapua cloud (also Eclipse framework). Thanks a lot for your reply, your efforts and time! Take care!

[@settlece]

thanks grate vid

[@markusstorm9304]

FWIW no need to edit the config file to boot from Wi-Fi: openHABian will open a hotspot when it has no connectivity

[@KinCony]

it's useful, thanks.

[@liorpr]

Great movie!!! thank you very much! can you make tutorial for Backup on spare sd card? unfortunately my system crash and the documentation is unclear...

[@jhestefan1]

would love to see the installation video for windows

[@_openHAB]

Hey Joseph thanks for your suggestion! I’ll see what i can do ;-)

[@MOTOSTAN]

how do you access the cnfig tool on windows,

[@MDARLtd]

Would you like to demo the Velbus binding via TCP connection, just to show how easy that is too? (Velbus Network Bridge)

[@MDARLtd]

@openHAB Can you send me a PM on the community forum so we can chat about creating a simple follow up video to show how to add Velbus assets?

[@nickcarnevalino7462]

well 1/2 way through video and there is no openhabian-config in my ubuntu based openHAB .... so now what?

[@willy.verbiest]

Hey Grant, No matter what I try I can't get into openhabian-config I have a fresh install on Raspberry Pi 4 OS Bullseye Lite with openHAB 3 in a docker container. I can configure openHAB via the browser on port 4050. If I log into the Raspberry Pi as pi and then give the command: $ docker exec -it openhab /openhab/runtime/bin/client Then I get the question to sign up Logging in as openhab Password: habopen openHAB 3.2.0 - Release Build openhab> If I then give the command: openhab> sudo openhabian-config Password: ???? Whatever I type in as a password I can't get in not with: habopen, openhab, openhabian or my openHAB website admin password Do you have a solution? Thanks in advance

[@iamxenton]

Hi, I had some issues. OH3 couldn't connect to the broker when I configured the MQTT broker thing. I ran the install again from openhabian-config and specified a password this time, I also used openhabian-config to fix the file permissions as I'd seen online some people having such issues with mosquitto. I then rebooted the Pi. I managed to configure everything and all seemed well this time until I tried to connect from outside the Pi (using MQTT Fx on my windows PC). After a quick look at the mosquitto log files, I realised it now ran it local-only mode by default and wouldn't allow connections from outside the Pi it was running on without editing the config file. That's certainly something people need to know, maybe something that can be done from the openhabian-config utility in the future?

[@simerui]

Hi Mark, how did you solved this issue? I'm just having the same problem right now thx!

[@hytaeju]

Please try turn off "Secure Connection" when you create MQTT binding on things

[@feedyourspeakers]

I didn't catch that the command to get to the config through putty is 'sudo openhabian-config' ...with a dash.., it wasnt spoken and was hard to see on my screen; for anyone else having trouble and getting an error

[@feedyourspeakers]

Also if i specify port 1883 for the broker it always shows offline, if i leave it blank it connects fine

[@_openHAB]

Hey feedyourspeakers, sorry I’m running a 4k screen and already zoomed in quite hard…I’ll try to change this for the upcoming videos. Yes it is sudo openhabian-config. That port issue is weird though never happened to me but if it works without it u can leave it blank. Greets

[@feedyourspeakers]

One other thing I noticed is that on my Pi 4, mosquitto would not start again if power was lost or I reboot the Pi. I looked under Settings > Things and MQTT Broker would show Offline / Comm Error. I had to use one more command to make mosquitto run auto at boot: 'sudo systemctl enable mosquitto' Now if the Pi is restarted it shows online. I don't know if that is specific to me or not though.

[@zipkiev]

How to connect xiaomi gateway 2 to OH3 in 2021?

[@to1to192]

What model of LCD touch screen (5:01) are you using ?

[@_openHAB]

I’m using the ETEPON 7inch Touch

[@Chethan01123]

Hi Everyone, I am doing my master thesis on "Concept for an OGC SensorThings API (STA) - conform data model of a Smart Public Building". I am using openHAB as an automation platform. I have few challenges in doing my master thesis. Could you someone assist me with the below mentioned question. Thanking you all. 1. How does openHAB stores sensor Data 2. How does STA structure the sensor data 3. Is that structure similar or entirely different 4. can data attributes be mapped Just looking forward to hear from you all.

[@muhammedatasoy7711]

how many devices do you have, this man, yes.....

[@yanidoesit]

Taught English by an Australian? wanta, gona, soona, will ya... ifa... I can give you more lessons. ;)

[@_openHAB]

sorry for that just trying my best as a german ;-)

[@jaydeeppatel1807]

what to dislike about the video

[@_openHAB]

Thank you!!