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+# Setup for Eclipse
+
+**Note:** The openHAB project is restructuring its build system, but was not finished as of writing this guide. Thus, the old build system is used here.
+
+1. Install Eclipse environment following https://www.openhab.org/docs/developer/ide/eclipse.html up to step 6 (Closing eclipse, and moving the git directory)
+2. Clone the addons repository at the commit `2b7415c3b8`:
+```bash
+git clnoe -n https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons
+git checkout 2b7415c3b8
+```
+3. Clone the openlicht binding repository, such that it is on the same directory as all other bindings, i.e., in `$OPENHAB_ROOT/git/openhab2-addons/addons/binding/`:
+```bash
+git clone git@git-st.inf.tu-dresden.de:OpenLicht/org.openhab.binding.openlicht.git
+# or using https
+git clone https://git-st.inf.tu-dresden.de/OpenLicht/org.openhab.binding.openlicht.git
+```
+4. Launch openHAB using the given launch configuration. This will create a run configuration. Stop the running instance, and edit the run configuration adding the OpenLicht binding to the run configuration.
+5. Rerun the run configuration and check if openHAB is starting well, and that things from the OpenLicht binding can be created.
+6. Cleanup the distro directory, i.e., remove all demo artefacts (items, rules, transformations, things). They will polluted the logs and don't do anything meaningful.
+7. Add new item and rule definitions (or use PaperUI exclusively)