Poll for users of misc/openhab

Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:21:11 +0200

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Hi,

in ports we have openhab at version 4. Version 5.0.x is available, but 
due to FreeBSD incompatibilities in graalvm stuff - which is used inside 
openhab - non RuleDSL (e.g. JavaScript or Python) scripting will not 
work, MQTT HA also seems to be affected. Version 5.1.x of openhab may 
come with a more recent graalvm which allows to disable os-name checks.

Technical details:
    https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/19276
    
https://github.com/oracle/graal/commit/6d441a8bb73273e286503cfd07a7292c941e6ce0

Poll / possible way forward for us:
1) update misc/openhab from v4 to v5, losing JS/python support for some 
months
2) keep misc/openhab at v4 until a fixed version is available
3) copy misc/openhab to misc/openhab4 and have misc/openhab at v5 (but 
then I would not do a run-test of v4 anymore... this is my least 
preferred way)

Opinions from FreeBSD users of openhab are welcome.

Bye,
Alexander.

P.S.: the openhab developers are of the opinion, that nobody is using it 
on FreeBSD 
(https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/19276#issuecomment-3250005890), 
it would be nice if users of openhab would mention their use of it on 
FreeBSD in some official openhab support channels to raise a bit of 
awareness.

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