Contact item bound to KNX shows state in English instead of German

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
1

Hi,

I have several Contact items - some of them are linked to Shelly devices, some to KNX binary inputs. My OpenHab installation is set to German.

My problem is, that Contacts linked to KNX show their state in English, but I want them to be in German. The Contact items linked to Shelly devices are translated correctly into German.

How can I get the German state names for the items linked to KNX?

The KNX thing is configured as follows:

UID: knx:device:mdt:BE1
label: KNX MDT BE-16000.01
thingTypeUID: knx:device
configuration:
  pingInterval: 600
  address: 1.0.40
  readInterval: 0
  fetch: false
bridgeUID: knx:ip:mdt
channels:
  - id: chE_Status
    channelTypeUID: knx:contact
    label: Channel E - Status
    description: ""
    configuration:
      ga: <4/4/10
2

It’s no channel feature. You have to configure this in the Item.

3

How can I configure that? With the state description?

But why do Contact items linked to Shelly devices behave differently than Contact items links to KNX contacts?

4

In the items list (URL settings/items), all Contact items show their state in English. If I click on a Contcat item linked to Shelly, the detail page for the item suddenly shows the state in German, if I click on a item linked to KNX, it is in English. Both Contact items have no specific metadata.

That looks strange to me :slight_smile:

5

I would like to understand why this Contact is showing “Offen” (German) and not “Open”.

As you can see, there is no metadata configured for this contact item.

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Other contact items bound to KNX binary inputs show “Open” and not “Offen”.

6

Some bindings will push state description patterns to Items when the Item is linked to a Channel. But not all bindings do that.

7

Thank you. It is indeed the Shelly binding which is providing the German translation.

I did not find it before in the code, but here are the relevant parts in this binding:

So it is clear now, why I have a mix of German and English Contact states.

8

Sorry for re-activating this old thread, but I have nearly the same problem.

My contacts are provided by knx only. So I have items definitions, that looks like that:

Contact FensterGastKontakt "Kontakt Fenster Gast [MAP(de.map):%s]" <switch> { channel="knx:device:ip1:gastactor:FensterGastKontakt" }
Contact FensterGBKontakt "Kontakt Fenster Gastbad [MAP(de.map):%s]" <switch> { channel="knx:device:ip1:gastbadactor:FensterGBKontakt" }

The item-page of the items (like, https:///settings/items/FensterGastKontakt) is showing the state in german, that means “zu” instead of “closed” - for every item. That means, I allwas see “zu” as state.

But, if I use that Items in a label cell with that configuration:

component: oh-grid-cells
config: {}
slots:
  default:
    - component: oh-label-cell
      config:
        title: Fenster Gästebad
        item: FensterGBKontakt
    - component: oh-label-cell
      config:
        title: Gästezimmer Fenster
        item: Gastezimmer_FensterGastKontakt

…than I have different languages in the gui:
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The only difference is, that FensterGBKontakt is the direct item from the items-definition file, while Gastezimmer_FensterGastKontakt is the item provided by the openhab semantic model. So Gastezimmer_FensterGastKontakt is linked to FensterGBKontakt

1.) It looks like, the mapping is lost by unsing the semantic model?
2.) Why does the semantic model creats a new item instead of using the original one?

Any idea waht could be happend here?