# Bundle Management
The console offers various commands to manage bundles, among other things. Most of these commands are not needed in the normal (non-developer) use of openHAB. However some basic console commands may be needed when dealing with certain advanced user situations, such as when testing a newly developed or patched binding.
# List Bundles
The bundle:list command returns a list of all currently installed bundles and their states, names, and versions. The core openHAB system is composed of many bundles. There will also be a bundle for each add-on, such a binding, that you have installed. A state of "Active" means the bundle is running.
openhab> bundle:list
START LEVEL 100 , List Threshold: 50
ID | State | Lvl | Version | Name
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22 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.10.3 │ Jackson-annotations
23 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.10.3 │ Jackson-core
24 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.10.3 │ jackson-databind
25 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.10.3 │ Jackson-dataformat-YAML
26 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.10.3 │ Jackson datatype: JSR310
27 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.8.2.v20180104-1110 │ Gson: Google Json Library for Java
...
209 | Active | 80 | 3.0.0 | openHAB Add-ons :: Bundles :: Network Binding
# Start/Stop Bundles
Stopping a bundle is done using the command stop and the ID of the bundle:
openhab> bundle:stop 209
openhab> bundle:list
...
209 | Resolved | 80 | 3.0.0 | openHAB Add-ons :: Bundles :: Network Binding
Starting a bundle is done using the start command and the ID of the bundle:
openhab> bundle:start 209
openhab> bundle:list
...
209 | Active | 80 | 3.0.0 | openHAB Add-ons :: Bundles :: Network Binding
# Naming Convention For Bundles
Bundles are named according to the following convention:
<prefix>.<type>.<id>
where
- prefix is the first element to categorize the bundle.
For addons this is
org.openhab. - type is the add-on type, e.g. "binding", "persistence", or "ui"
- id is the identifier for this bundle
These bundle names are used in many places in openHAB, such as in various configuration files.
Logging also makes extensive use of this package namespace.
You can see these names listed as the Symbolic names of bundles by using the -s option of bundle:list:
openhab> bundle:list -s
ID | State | Lvl | Version | Symbolic name
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
209 | Active | 80 | 3.0.0 | org.openhab.binding.network