My Smart Home with openHAB2

As newcomer in openHAB2 I want to share my findings with you. Here the list of my existing and planned articles:

openHAB2 concepts

• Starting with openHAB2
• Some additional basics
• Powerful tools: PaperUI and Karaf

Smart home applications

• Setup for Mi-Light based on PaperUI
• Small examples: Yahoo Weather, NTP and Systems Service
• Integrating EDIMAX Smart Plug Switch into openHAB2
• Including sensors via ESP8266

Automation

• The rules concept

Operation

• Tips and Tricks
• Security

 

 

 

Starting with openHAB2

There are many reasons that my smart home solution will be based on openHAB:

• its an open system,
• contributes and colloborates with Eclipse SmartHome,
• is based on Java (i.e. available on several platforms) and
• supported by large community.

Its my first attempt with home automatization and currently I’m not involved in openHAB community. Therefore, all statements here are my personal views and interpretations. I decided to start directly with openHAB2 due to introduction of new features such as Discovery Service and PaperUI.  I’m aware that currently openHAB2 is still in beta phase implementation, i.e. not all bindings/plugins are ported (but the old ones are compatibel) and – more important – documentation is not mature at this phase.

Therefore I want to share my learnings in this blog. Initially I failed with setup of online distro on Raspberry Pi, therefore I started with offline distro on Windows 10.