A few questions on status indicators for switches

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

You can have a look at this:

[Deprecated] Design Patterns: Generic Is Alive

There is now a Rule Template on the marketplace to implement this for you. See below for instructions on how to set it up. Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for a description of what Design Patterns are and how to use them. Problem Statement Many sensors report status to openHAB periodically (e.g. temperature sensor) or unpredictably (e.g. motion sensors) and a subset of these sensors do not have a built in way for openHAB to query whether or not they a…

That monitors if sensors are alive

Then you can change the colour of the text in the BasicUI according to the state of an item
See:
https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/sitemaps.html#dynamic-sitemaps