Unless and until:
- one can apply a Profile to an Item without a Channel link
- one can apply more than one Profile to an Item
The proposed approach of using a Profile to replace the binding will remain wholly inadequate. The last comment from rossko57 on that issue essentially states just this way back in June and there has been no activity on the issue and PR since then. I don’t think that it’s guaranteed that this will be implemented in OH 3 and even if it is, as I mention, it won’t be an adequate replacement for the binding for many if not most current users of the Expire binding.
The Jython drop-in replacement should work with Group Items. It’s not a binding so the issue rossko57 brings up doesn’t apply.
No, you can have more than one binding on an Item with no problems. But you need to understand that the Expire binding works on the Item’s state and I suspect you will want the Item to be in different states than just one all the time so Expire is likely not going to be a good choice here. Unless you follow Karsten’s suggestion. But if you already have to write a rule, you may as well do the Timers inside the rule anyway. See [Deprecated] Design Pattern: Motion Sensor Timer for an example of how to create and manage timers like this.