Converting group items into non-group items

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Marmoset_Threat

Unfortunately, I can’t graph them with Graphana or the “chart” widget in HabPanel. Now, a bit of searching reveals that inability to graph group items is a known issue (in graphana at least) and one of the suggested solutions is to have the group item save it’s state into a non-group item every time it is updated.

Not necessary. Just put HKTKitchen_Average_Temp in your influxdb.persist file (no *). Then the state of the Group will be saved just like any other Item.

@Marmoset_Threat

The problem is that I’m too lazy I’d rather not to write this 30+ times (I have a lot of zones) and even with copy/paste and find/replace, this strikes me as something that should be able to be efficiently handled. What would be the quickest and least effort way of doing this?

You never need to write identical Rules 30+ times. That’s what the Member of rule trigger, triggeringItem implicit variable and Design Pattern: Associated Items is for. You can handle all 30+ Items with one six or so line Rule (only one line of actual code).

rule "do conversion"
when
    Member of AverageGroups changed
then
    postUpdate(triggeringItem.name+"_PersistItem", triggeringItem.state.toString)
end