Tips and Tricks

In this article you can find tips and tricks for operation of openHAB2 in alphabetical order. Additional topics will be added step-by-step….

Addons

see command “help feature”

Addons query:

Q: Which bindings/addons are installed/started?

console -> feature:list

console -> feature:list | grep <text>        e.g. feature:list | grep fs20

Icons

You are allowed for beautifiing your sitemaps by icons (e.g. item = “temperature”).

The classic icon set is shown here. There is also a list of default icons for openHAB2 from ESM project.

Items

see command “help items”

Q: Which items are defined? What is the status?

console -> items:list

console -> items:list  <pattern>             e.g. items:list | ntp*

Log

see command “help log” and here

Q: How I can see logs and change the log level?

Log level:

console -> log:set  e.g. log:set ERROR  (default is WARN, others: DEBUG, INFO, …)

see your settings: log:list

Log display:

console -> log:tail

Yon can filter log display for certain bindings: log:display org.openhab.binding.edimax

SSH/Remote access

Use Kitty (or) Putty in order to access your Raspberry running openHAB2. Enable SSH in “rasp-config”