Can a widget be a "member" of a Items group ? Or is there a simple alternative?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@bkumio

This was not so clear to me in first place.

Hopefully this is made clear in the Getting Started Tutorial. The users who have the most trouble with OH 3 are OH 2 users who skip the tutorial.

@bkumio

As my garage door only reacts to a on/off pushbutton I had to solve this with a rule in OH2.4 before

This was definitely supported in OH 2.5, but I think 2.4 supported it also. Though below a certain version, Expire had to be installed as a separate add-on.

@bkumio

How could I add the rest of the metadata of the default list item to the textual config?

Honestly, it’s not worth it. Your .items definitely is going to be thousand of characters long and it’s going to be a nightmare to maintain.

Item metadata and Items are managed separately so you can keep the Item definition in fights and done of the metadata managed.

But if you want to learn the hard way, add a default x widget to an item and click on the “code” tab. All Item metadata follows the same format.

Items

It should be straight forward to translate the y’all you see in the code tab to the text format.

@bkumio

E.g. not familiar with committing changes. Is it enough if I edit the documentation page and give it a try ? How will it make to production?

Not a stupid question. We have an extensive tutorial written to answer this.

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