Contact item, switch item, and icons

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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Trying to set up my sitemap to get the functionality that I’m looking for. Here are the appropriate sections of my items and sitemap files:

.items

Switch GDreq {mqtt=">[openhab:home/garage/door:command:ON:OPEN], >[openhab:home/garage/door:command:OFF:CLOSE]"}
Contact Garage_Door <garagedoor> {mqtt="<[openhab:home/garage/door_state:state:default], >[openhab:home/garage/door:command:OPEN:OPEN]"}

.sitemap

Switch item=Garage_Door label="Garage Door" icon="garagedoor" mappings=[OPEN="OPEN"] visibility=[Garage_Door==CLOSED]
Switch item=Garage_Door label="Garage Door" icon="garagedoor" mappings=[CLOSED="CLOSE"] visibility=[Garage_Door==OPEN]

Switch item=GDreq label="Garage Door Request" icon="garagedoor-closed" mappings=[ON="OPEN"] visibility=[Garage_Door==CLOSED]
Switch item=GDreq label="Garage Door Request" icon="garagedoor-open" mappings=[OFF="CLOSE"] visibility=[Garage_Door==OPEN]

My problem is that I can’t get both functionality and the appropriate icon to display. The functionality of the “Switch item=GDreq…” works, but the displayed icon is always “garagedoor”. The icon shown with “Switch item=Garage_Door…” is appropriate (garagedoor-closed when contact is closed, garagedoor-open when contact is open), but the functionality of the switch does not work.

The Contact Garage_Door is being successfully updated by a remote sensor that makes mqtt posts to the appropriate topic.

Can someone point to my error? Thanks!

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In OH 2 they changed how icons work so you can no longer refer to the state icons directly (i.e. you can use garagedoor but not garagedoor-closed).

The only way I found to work around this was to make a copy of the garagedoor-closed and garagedoor-open icon files in the icons/classic folder with new names, in my case gdclosed.png and gdopen.png.