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  <h1>Tutorials</h1>
  <p>Choose one of the options below to learn more about openHAB, either by following along a tutorial or by looking at a few examples.</p>
  <p>openHAB empowers you to do (nearly) everything in your smart home. Start small, reach high!</p>
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  <h2 id="community">Community</h2>
  <p>Feel free to check out the numerous tutorials and examples provided by many users in the openHAB community forum! There are new posts every week and show special aspects or bring in new ideas that the Getting Started Tutorial does not cover.</p>
  <p>Here are just a selected few of the existing tutorials and examples:</p>
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    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/15587/1">Washing Machine State Machine</a> - Observe and notify on the state of your household appliance.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/15642/1">Power Consumption of Lights (and more)</a> - An easy approach to monitor energy usage and consumption.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/7611/1">Speedtest-cli Integration</a> - Show your internet connections uplink and downlink bandwidth in openHAB.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/13761/1">InfluxDB+Grafana Persistence and Graphing</a> - Historical data at your fingertips.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/4366/1">RGB LED Strip Control using Arduino and MQTT</a> - Get your tinkering on!</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/32329/1">iCloud Device Data Integration</a> - Retrieve the location and battery state of your devices right from the iCloud.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/18171/1">iPhone Presence Detection with hping3 and ARP</a> - A special method to find even who doesn't want to be found.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/32684/1">Type Conversion Cheat Sheet</a> - All about Item state and data type compatibility and conversion.</li>
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/29509/1">Node-RED as an Alternative Rule Engine</a> - openHAB openness and flexibility at its finest.</li> -->
    <li><a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/tags/designpattern">Design Patterns</a> - A postings series of openHAB rules design patterns/best practices to solve commonly occuring tasks.</li>
    <li>And many more! Check the <a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/c/setup-configuration-and-use/tutorials-examples">Tutorials&amp;Examples category overview</a> for more great contributions.</li>
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  <p><strong>Contribute your own examples!</strong> Check out the <a target="_blank" href="https://community.openhab.org/t/about-the-tutorials-examples-category/15581/1">"About"</a> article and do not hesitate to contact one of the moderators for questions and help to get you going.</p>
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