Astro binding to move a switch

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1

Hello there,

a few days ago I installed openhab2 on raspbian. I´m trying to turn a switch ON at sunset. I installed astro bindung using Paper UI, things (astro:sun:local) and channels (astro:sun:local:rise#start etc.) were created.

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In my sitemap the time for sunrise (LocalSun_Rise_StartTime) and sunset (LocalSun_Set_StartTime) are displayed correctly.

But using this rule, nothing happens at all:

rule "Lichtan"
     when
          Channel 'astro:sun:local:set#event' triggered START
     then
         TP_L_Switch.sendCommand("ON")
end

With a cron-job the switch works fine.

The openhab.log says:

2018-08-10 15:28:45.899 [INFO ] [thome.binding.astro.internal.job.Job] - Scheduled Astro event-jobs for thing astro:sun:local
2018-08-10 15:28:46.051 [INFO ] [thome.binding.astro.internal.job.Job] - Scheduled Astro event-jobs for thing astro:moon:local

The event.log says nothin at all…

I´ve no idea what to do, maybe just too blind to see. Thanks in advance.

2

Did you already restart openHAB?

3

several times, deleted cache…

4

Do you have any other rule with the same name?

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5

The Rule looks right and the Thing looks healthy. It is updating or else you wouldn’t see the DateTime Item’s with valid times.

I just looked at my events.log and there doesn’t appear to be anything logged by default when the sunrise/sunset events occur.

Just to verify the problem is with the Astro binding, add a logInfo to that Rule so you can see in openhab.log whether or not the Rule is firing and the problem is actually with the sendCommand, or not.

6

okay, this is the rule now

rule "Lichtan"
     when
          Channel 'astro:sun:local:set#event' triggered START
     then
         logInfo("Lichtan.rules", "This is a log entry of type Info!")
         TP_L_Switch.sendCommand("ON")
end

but nothing happend in openhab.log. I´ve used an offset for testing and in paperui and sitemap I can see that the time of sunset has changed correctly according to the offset.

@ Udo-Hartmann: I only have this rule and a default.rules.

7

What version of OH did you install and how did you install it?

8

I´ve used the package repository and followed the linux installation guide. But in fact I can´t tell you what version I installed. It seems to me that my sd-card crashed after a reebot and now it´s dead. So I will have to set it up again…

Thanks for your help. I will get back to this within the next days.

9

OK. This could have been a symptom of a wearing out SD card, though it is more likely that the file system became corrupted during a power failure. Avoid at all costs from yanking the power from an RPi without properly shutting it down. It can result in corruption.

I would recommend giving openHABian a look. It might be less work for you to get back up and running.

10

That´s what I did. I installed openhabian. Configuration of the astro binding finally took 5 minutes and everythings works as it should…

thank you very much
best regards