openHAB V1 Reviews

Good luck ever getting this to work. It's the usual incompetent hack put together by FOSS types, and utterly uninterested in usability. You can't do anything in openHABV1 till you register at their web site. After poking around their for fifteen minutes you'll eventually find what looks like a registration page except in addition to the usual email/password info it wants you to supply a "shared secret" and a "UUID" -- and good luck knowing what it expects either of those to be.
Once you get past that hurdle, you can log in via the iOS app? Oh no. Apparently you now need to configure some URLs in openHABV1 . After making various guesses as to what these were, I was rewarded, on each attempt, with sme sort of failure message. At this point I gave up and concluded that life was really too short to deal with these people any longer.

Running IOS 15.7.1 and OpenHAB crashes at startup. It dies immediately after flashing a white options pop up that I think might be asking me to report a problem. But it disappears so fast I can’t tell for sure. I’m running (or trying to) the latest version from about a week ago.

hasn't been updated in more than a year= absndoned project= probably just harvesting data

The update from version 2.4.56 to version 2.4.57 no longer shows my home sitemap. I get a blank page. The new replacement app also has the same issue.

Keyboard doesn't pop up to enter values in the setup. URL etc

This is a great app if you have OpenHab. Unfortunately the current version seems to have broken IOS split view multitasking.

First, thank you very much for the time and effort you put into openHABV1. It's a "more than adequate" companion to the OpenHAB web interface...BUT...I was hoping Webview camera setups and Webview graph displays (Grafana/InfluxDB) would actually render with this update?.?. :/

Works perfectly, but it does require having an OpenHAB server running at your residence. Setup is fairly straightforward- and help can always be found on the community support forum.

Would love to see an Apple Watch app come with openHABV1 though! -1 star for lack of support for the Apple Watch.

It would be great if the iPad’s version could support split view, so that we can open our OpenHAB panel as a swipeable side app that is always ready to be opened 🙏

For me using this with myopenhab and shortcuts on my iPhone opened a world of remote possibilities. I don’t use openHABV1 other than for the Shortcuts integration, so I can have quick access to some of my devices.

It took several attempts to authenticate with myopenhab, but once it did it has been rock solid.

I am amazed that this service is provided for free because many other providers charge for it.

Great job with openHABV1 !

Is zwave lock supported?

I’m giving openHABV1 5 stars because it completes an OpenHAB implementation nicely. However since 2.0.0, setpoints display as 0. The workaround is to use a decimal step value in the sitemap (e.g. 1.5 instead of 1). Please fix this bug.

This is a fantastic update for the iOS version! Fixing the Setpoint values is much appreciated. Search bar is also an awesome feature! And a little formatting touch up certainly doesn’t hurt. Adds a slightly updated look.

The best automation app that I’ve been using for years. I just would like the developers to work more on Apple like CarPlay or Apple Watch, everything else nice work!

If you are already an user of OpenHAB, openHABV1 is a good addition to the web version. This is not for newbies. There are reviews here complaining how openHABV1 is difficult to setup and what not. This is not an app for people who knows nothing about OpenHAB. If you want a do it for me solution, go with the Samsung SmartThings. If you want a do it myself solution, give OpenHAB (the web version) a try first.

I have it work with my home and office. This is not for beginners. You need to have a basic understanding of programming. It would be great if multi site option was available. Overall great app. Keep up the good work.

Thank you

The icons update correctly now with this update. OpenHAB is GREAT for interfacing with Arduino using the MQTT protocol!!

Note to the developer:
It would be nice if the settings were embedded in the iOS settings app, under "openHAB", so that its hidden within openHABV1 .
Also the whole screen scrolls to easily when trying to adjust a slider/dimmer.

Great job on openHABV1 ! It's awesome!

Works great. I love the phone app

Works great, I use with insteon, z-wave, and modbus protocols.

New update fixed the crashing when it tried connecting remotely with a local address set. Thanks for that. Setpoint readouts are still showing zero when they’re not suppose to. The buttons still change the value when referencing it from a web browser but it still reads zero in openHABV1 .