The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) project aims at providing a universal integration platform for all things around home automation. It is a pure Java solution, fully based on OSGi. The Equinox OSGi runtime and Jetty as a web server build the core foundation of the runtime.
It is designed to be absolutely vendor-neutral as well as hardware/protocol-agnostic. openHAB brings together different bus systems, hardware devices and interface protocols by dedicated bindings. These bindings send and receive commands and status updates on the openHAB event bus. This concept allows designing user interfaces with a unique look&feel, but with the possibility to operate devices based on a big number of different technologies. Besides the user interfaces, it also brings the power of automation logics across different system boundaries.
December 31, 2013 -- The openHAB 1.4 release has been scheduled for February 9, 2014 - stay tuned!
November 07, 2013 -- The Eclipse SmartHome project has been officially created by the Eclipse Foundation
September 22, 2013 -- We are proud to announce that openHAB is a winner of the Duke's Choice Award 2013.
September 22, 2013 -- Our new landing page http://www.openhab.org has been published today.
September 20, 2013 -- We have moved our sources from Google Code to GitHub - check out our new git repository!
September 8, 2013 -- openHAB 1.3 has been released! Read the Release-Notes-13 to learn what cool new features it brings.
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To see openHAB in action, you can directly access our demo server - choose one of these options:
- Check out the Classic UI on the demo server (use !WebKit-based browser, e.g. Safari or Chrome)
- Check out the GreenT UI on the demo server (use !WebKit-based browser, e.g. Safari or Chrome)
- Install the native Android client from the Google Play Store on your Android 4.x smartphone, which is preconfigured to use the demo server.
- Install the native iOS client from the AppStore on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, which is preconfigured to use the demo server.
- Try the REST API directly on the demo server
If you just want to watch for a start, you might also like our YouTube channel!
The released binaries of openHAB can be downloaded here
The nightly Snapshot-Builds can be found at Cloudbees
December 18, 2013 -- Eclipse SmartHome was presented by Kai at the Eclipse Day at Googleplex in Mountain View.
November 29, 2013 -- Eclipse SmartHome was presented by Kai at Nordic Coding in Kiel.
November 12, 2013 -- openHAB was presented by Thomas at Devoxx Conference in Antwerpen, Belgium.
October 30, 2013 -- The Eclipse SmartHome project (and implicitly openHAB) was presented by Kai at EclipseCon Conference in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
September 26, 2013 -- We gave a talk about openHAB at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.
September 10, 2013 -- openHAB has been presented by Thomas at M2M Summit 2013 in Düsseldorf. The slides are now available. The recorded video is now available on Youtube.
May 16, 2013 -- openHAB was presented by Kai and Thomas at GeeCON Conference in Krakow (Poland). The slides are now available.
April 24, 2013 -- openHAB was presented by Kai and Thomas at JAX Conference in Mainz (Germany).
November 17, 2012 -- The experience of making a home automation system based entirely on Open Source technologies (Arduino and openHAB) was shared by Francesco di Guidieri and Sandro Salari at Codemotion in Venice (Italy) (translated). You can view the slides on Slideshare.
November 14, 2012 -- openHAB was presented by Kai and Thomas at Devoxx Conference in Antwerpen (Belgium). You can view the slides on Slideshare. The recorded video is now available Parleys.com.
October 18, 2012 -- openHAB was presented at JUGS, Java User Group in Stuttgart. You can view the slides on Slideshare.
September 27, 2012 -- openHAB was presented at rheinJUG, Java User Group in Düsseldorf. You can view the recorded video and the slides on Slideshare.
August 08, 2011 -- A TechTalk about openHAB was held at Deutsche Telekom AG in Darmstadt. You can view the recorded video and the slides on Slideshare.
If you do not care about reading docs and just want to see things running, here are the quick start instructions for you:
- Download the release version of the openHAB runtime (or alternatively the latest snapshot build)
- Unzip it to some local folder
- Download the demo files
- Unzip to your openHAB folder
- run
start.shresp.start.bat - Point your browser at http://localhost:8080/openhab.app?sitemap=demo
If you want to use more bindings, you can download the addons.zip and extract it into the addons folder of the openHAB runtime.
If you are interested in more details, please see the setup guide.
Check out the presentations that have been done about openHAB so far. If you are interested in the system architecture and its internals, please check out the wiki for the Architecture.
If you are looking for support, please check out the different support channels that we provide.
As any good open source project, openHAB welcomes any participation in the project. Read more in the how to contribute guide.
If you are a developer and want to jump right into the sources and execute openHAB from within Eclipse, please have a look at the IDE setup procedures.
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