Astro binding Channel trigger: receivedEvent only contains 'START'

[Uwe_Janssen]

Environment:
OH3 3.10 on
openhabian

Scenario: one or multiple astro events fire, e.g.

astro:sun:local:morningNight#event START

astro.things and astro.items are as proposed in examples (only change:home->local)

Problem:
The contents of receivedEvent always is ‘START’ . In OH2, I got the entire event String (which I am missing now)
NOTE: the problem only occurred when migrating from OH2 → OH3.

I tested this using the console and sending this command:

things trigger astro:sun:local:morningNight#event START

Of course in the first place it also happens when the event is generated by the astro binding (and also applies for all events in the ‘when’ section of the rule.

Here is my rule:

rule "astro event"
when
  Channel "astro:sun:local:night#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:daylight#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:morningNight#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:astroDawn#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:nauticDawn#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:civilDawn#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:rise#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:noon#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:civilDusk#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:nauticDusk#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:astroDusk#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:eveningNight#event" triggered START or
  Channel "astro:sun:local:riseSet#event" triggered  
then
    logInfo("","receivedEvent {} detected at  {}", receivedEvent, now)
    val convertedEvent = makeAstroEventHumanReadable.apply(receivedEvent)
    //logInfo("","convertedEvent = {}", convertedEvent)
    LastEvent.postUpdate(convertedEvent)
    val mqttActions = getActions("mqtt","mqtt:broker:myUnsecureBroker")
    mqttActions.publishMQTT("astroevent",convertedEvent,true)
end

Log File contents graphically

Log File Text:

2021-10-30 12:54:05.450 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ChannelTriggeredEvent ] - astro:sun:local:morningNight#event triggered START

==> /var/log/openhab/openhab.log <==

2021-10-30 12:54:05.456 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script. ] - receivedEvent START detected at 2021-10-30T12:54:05.456323+02:00[Europe/Berlin]

2021-10-30 12:54:05.459 [INFO ] [org.openhab.core.model.script. ] - makeAstroEventHumanReadable::pEventString = START

As you can see, there is only ‘START’ in the received event.
Thus any subsequent event dependant processing fails.
Any advice or workaround will be appreciated (I spent some time digging in the threads already).
Best Regards,
Uwe

[rossko57]

@Uwe_Janssen

As you can see, there is only ‘START’ in the received event.

Yes. That’s the way it works in OH3. It was in the “OH3 breaking changes” doc that now seems to have become hard to find.

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I think you can get to it in other rule languages.

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[Uwe_Janssen]

Thank you, I did not see this in breaking changes docu.
I also read about proposal to switch to js.
Nonetheless I hoped that there would be at least a workaround

Best Regards,
Uwe