I’m not sure if OpenHAB updated, or if Deconz Phoscon updated, but I have a new channel available on all of my lights and plug sockets: ‘On Time’.
But it doesn’t seem to work. Any one know anything about any of this?
I’ve been trying to send it a number, but do I need to send it a special time unit somehow?
You need to send something like 300 s to the ontime channel and then this time is used if you send ON tobte color/brightness/switch Channel.
Thanks.
That worked. And minutes is min. Strange it isn’t m. Is m months maybe?
Any ideas of a simple way to link this to a UI stepper or slider or something? I think I could do it with a dummy item and a rule, but it seems it should be more straight forward than that.
And another oddity, the string field of the ‘On Time’ item only seems to update its number when I send it a number without the time unit. If I send it 1min it works as 1 min timer, but the value doesn’t change in the item, but if I send it a number, it will update the string field, but the timer wont work.
What is the “string field”?
That‘s most likely an UI issue.
You can check the actual item state with openhab:state itemname on the karaf console.
See https://www.openhab.org/docs/concepts/units-of-measurement.html. m is the unit for “meter”. M in front of another compatible unit is “Mega” (e.g. MWh for Mega-Watt Hour).
