Add-Ons
All aspects of openHAB are extendable. We call those extensions Add-ons.
Add-ons allow openHAB to recognise devices, to extend what you can do in Rules and Scripts, and to make openHAB available to other services like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit and so on.
An add-on that …
- integrates physical hardware, external systems and web services is called: Binding,
- exposes openHAB to external systems is called: System integration,
- stores time series data for history-based actions or statistics is called: Persistence service,
- translates between technical and human-readable values for Items is called: Transformation,
- provides voice enabling features, such as text-to-speech, speech-to-text is called: Voice service.
Find the section Add-ons in the top navigation bar and extend your openHAB installation. Choose from over 300 addons via …
- the official openHAB repositories,
- from the Eclipse Marketplace,
- directly from the repository of a developer, via a
.jarfile.