Installing the designer

The Designer is an eclipse-based IDE allowing to edit text configuration file.

Install

To do this :

• Go to the following site (it contains the latest version) : https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/blob/master/docs/documentation/community/downloads.md#designer-builds.
• In the nightly snapshots build, click on the link : Eclipse SmartHome Designer (Mac OSX 64bit), to download it in your "download" folder.

• with the finder, navigate to the OpenHab folder we created during the OpenHab installation
• create a new folder called extrain the OpenHab folder
• move the file ve have just downloaded inside this folder

First launch of the designer

At the first launch only, we need to tell to the designer where are the configuration file.

To do so:

• using the finder, go to the extra folder we created just before;
• double-click on the Eclipse SmartHome Designer icon
• when the launch of the designer is completed, the following window appears:

At this stage, the configuration window is empty as the designer does not know where are the configuration files.

To tell it where are these files:

• click on the small folder icon at the top right of the configuration window,
• a file browser pops up,
• navigate to the OpenHab folder we have created when installing OpenHab,
• double-click on the conf folder,

• click on the button Open,
• the Configuration windows now lists the different configuration folders: