Make OpenHAB userfriendly to program (GUI) + device discovery

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1. Feature Description
Great software framework, but it won't break the market 
if only programmers can use it.

Please make it "sellable", needs a great drag&drop GUI for configuring 
items/devices,
connect them, even scripting should be assisted.
This client can be run on PC (with XML backend), please avoid java for that 
(very slow).

A huge lack of feature for me is the absents of automatic device discovery.
e.g. ping all devices and wait for ACK (if supports), then store device address.
Address search should be logarithmic, e.g. start at max, div 2, no response, 
div 2..

Every ACK-ed device should be graphically displayed.
Plug & Play concept instead Code & Pray

Think about like this: if your are the only one in your family who can program 
it,
and you get hit by a bus one day, who will maintain your system?
It would be a fortune to get another expert.
But if it had a config GUI, your wife might not freak out.

Everybody says MQTT is the future, greater support should be put in for that.

After you have an intuitive interface you could sell Rasberry Pi kits on 
kickstarter.

Check out UPB Upstart software for refernce, object oriented, graphical 
interface and autodiscovery.
http://simply-automated.com/marketing/UPStart/SAI60SetupB13.zip

Cheers,

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mrx23dot on 13 Sep 2013 at 5:09

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Hi,

thanks for your feedback!

Since it has more of an open structure i'd like to move this feedback to our 
Google-Group rather than this issue tracker. Would you mind post your feedback 
to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openhab? When we've identified 
detailed issues we should create a single issue per requirement to track their 
progress easily.

Best,

Thomas E.-E.

Original comment by teichsta on 13 Sep 2013 at 8:13

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I support as well all what you say and discussions around many of the things 
(like admin/config UIs and auto-discovery) have already been started (see e.g. 
issue 420).
So I would also prefer to split up your suggestions into individual issues. 
Don't expect the work starting in a short timeframe though, as I think this 
very much concerns the core framework, which we will soon outsource to Eclipse 
- so these discussions might be moved over there as well.

Original comment by kai.openhab on 14 Sep 2013 at 8:31

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