openHAB VS Code Extension 0.3.0

What's new

• Introduced openHAB Things Explorer view in the sidebar!
  • Create Items directly from Thing's channels.
  • Quick copy name and Thing UID directly from the sidebar
  • Quick access to the binding documentation
• Insert into Sitemap feature in the openHAB Items view
• Various Language Server Protocol fixes
• New configuration parameters:
  • restCompletions - toggles completions from REST API
  • paperPath - defaults to paperui. Change it to ui if you're using openHAB build from before 9th Jan 2017
  • paperInBrowser - if set to true, will open Paper UI in a browser instead of VSCode window
  • lspEnabled - if true, will enable communication with openHAB's Language Server. Note that misc-lsp add-on needs to be installed.
  • lspPort - defaults to 5007, custom LSP port parameter (#42)
• Fixed "switch" icon coloring (#18)
• "Set openHAB host" button on error message (#42)
• Breaking change: openhab.port parameter is now a number (e.g. 8080 instead of "8080").
  Please change it in your settings after upgrade.

Things Explorer Demo

Installation

This extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace -> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openhab.openhab

You can also install it manually:

1. Download openhab-0.3.0.vsix on your hard drive
2. Open command line in the same folder you downloaded the extension
3. Type the following command:

code --install-extension openhab-0.3.0.vsix

This version will override the previous one.

4. Open Visual Studio Code
5. Open openhab configuration (openHAB-conf) folder as your workspace
6. Open user settings (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + S) and set "openhab.host" to your openHAB IP address
7. Enjoy! ;-)

openHAB VS Code Extension 0.2.0

What's new

• Language Server Protocol support
• You can now disable REST API connection
• Updated logo icons
• Better error handling
• Fixed REST connection with Basic Authentication
• Paper UI URL is now dynamically detected
• More new snippets

Installation

This extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace -> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openhab.openhab

You can also install it manually:

1. Download openhab-0.2.0.vsix on your hard drive
2. Open command line in the same folder you downloaded the extension
3. Type the following command:

code --install-extension openhab-0.2.0.vsix

This version will override the previous one.

4. Open Visual Studio Code
5. Open openhab configuration (openHAB-conf) folder as your workspace
6. Open user settings (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + S) and set "openhab.host" to your openHAB IP address
7. Enjoy! ;-)

openHAB VS Code Extension 0.1.0

What's new

• Completely new openHAB Items Explorer view in the sidebar!
  • Preview all of your items thanks to the REST API
  • Dynamic rules from the Items Explorer view - including the current state
  • Ability to copy Item's name and state
  • Clicking non-Group item opens it in the Paper UI by default
  • Note: Currently in VS Code stable Items Explorer is permanently visible. VS Code Insiders allows you to hide the tree view thanks to vscode#29436
• Added Items autocompletion (with IntelliSense documentation) (#7)
• Quick search in the Community Forum
• Added icon theme

Installation

This extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace -> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=openhab.openhab

You can also install it manually:

1. Download openhab-0.1.0.vsix on your hard drive
2. Open command line in the same folder you downloaded the extension
3. Type the following command:

code --install-extension openhab-0.1.0.vsix

This version will override the previous one.

4. Open Visual Studio Code
5. Open openhab configuration (openHAB-conf) folder as your workspace
6. Enjoy! ;-)

openHAB VS Code Extension 0.0.2

What's new

• openHAB host and port are now configurable through the user settings (#14)
• Added "openhab.searchCommunity" action allowing to search selected text in the openHAB Community (#13)
• Minor tweaks in the code and documentation (#6 #13)

Installation

This extension is not available in the Marketplace yet.
However, you can install it manually:

1. Download openhab-0.0.2.vsix on your hard drive
2. Open command line in the same folder you downloaded the extension
3. Type the following command:

code --install-extension openhab-0.0.2.vsix

This version will override the previous one.

4. Open Visual Studio Code
5. Open openhab configuration (openHAB-conf) folder as your workspace
6. Enjoy! ;-)

VS Code becomes openHAB-enabled!

Installation

This extension is not available in the Marketplace yet.
However, you can install it manually:

1. Download openhab-0.0.1.vsix on your hard drive
2. Open command line in the same folder you downloaded the extension
3. Type the following command:

code --install-extension openhab-0.0.1.vsix

4. Open Visual Studio Code
5. Open openhab configuration (openHAB-conf) folder
6. Enjoy! ;-)