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

git clone -n https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons
git checkout 2b7415c3b8

3. Clone (or only checkout if already existing) the distro repository at the commit 0a3cb33

git clone -n https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro.git
git checkout 0a3cb33

4. 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/:

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

The directory structure should now look like this:

├── eclipse
├── git
│   ├── openhab2-addons  # at 2b7415c3b8
│   │   ├── addons
│   │   │   ├── binding
│   │   │   │   ├── org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.mqtt # ... and other bindings
│   │   │   │   ├── org.openhab.binding.openlicht      # at HEAD
│   ├── openhab-distro   # at 0a3cb33
├── ws

5. 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.
6. Rerun the run configuration and check if openHAB is starting well, and that things from the OpenLicht binding can be created.
7. 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.
8. Add new item and rule definitions (or use PaperUI exclusively)