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layout: tutorial-beginner
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{% include base.html %}
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# openHAB UIs
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openHAB offers different UIs in its standard configuration: the *Paper UI*, the *Basic UI* and the *Classic UI* (this has to be installed manually from within Paper UI or via config file).
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## The Paper UI
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The Paper UI is an interface that helps setting up and configuring your openHAB instance.
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It does not (yet) cover all aspects, so you still need to resort to textual configuration files, but it already offers the following:
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- Add-on management: Easily install or uninstall openHAB add-ons
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- Thing discovery: See devices and services found on your network and add them to your setup.
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- Linking items to channels: Instead of adding a binding configuration to your item file, you can directly link Thing channels to your items.
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Note that you still need to define your items, sitemaps, persistence configurations and rules in the according configuration files (as done in openHAB 1).
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Such functionality will be added bit by bit to the Paper UI only.
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All these aspects are explained in the rest of this tutorial.
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Here you can find a small screencast about the Paper UI:
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[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV2a5qwtmRE)
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## The Basic UI
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The Basic UI is a web interface based on Material Design Lite from Google. This interface is used to present the different sitemaps.
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The UIs features are:
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- Responsive layout suitable for various screen sizes
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- AJAX navigation
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- Live update
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## The Classic UI
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The Classic UI offers the same services that the Basic UI but with a different look and feel, close to an old iOS one.
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Now let's start with the [configuration of openHAB]({{base}}/tutorials/beginner/configuration.html)
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