As an avid Thing/Item file user, I sometimes find it cumbersome to create the equivalent Thing file configuration for an auto discovered thing from the inbox. This often leads to first accepting the auto discovered thing as a managed thing, then creating a file entry manually by copying representation property etc from the managed thing. Finally I delete the managed thing.
So make this easier I created this simple dialog where the user (me) can copy a starting point for the file configuration - with the representation property included.
Thanks @JimT, I tried to embed this tag, but it did not render as I expected (not showing up at all).
Not sure if the syntax was wrong - or if the dialog component don’t support it. Maybe someone with sufficient experience knows?
This is good. On a similar note, i used to define all things and items in files. Now i take the approach to automatically generated both things and items as much as possible.
I do this in jrule using thing and item registry.
Not possible for everything, I’ll try to include this in the unifiprotect binding as an example, to have the option to automatically generate items. To me if it’s manually creating items in files or linking channels to items in the gui is somewhat boring and time consuming.
A lot easier to do this with items than things due to the nature of it.
