Design Pattern: Simple State Machine (e.g. Time Of Day)

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@RayBe

do these “v”'s have a purpose?

Identify itemname based on part of a name

See my Assocaited Items Design Pattern. Assuming that all your Items are a member of a Group then: gTex_Zone.filter[sw|sw.name.contains("some string") First, I might recommend coming up with a more meaningful naming pattern. Numbers make a lot of sense to computers but before long you will be scratching your head wondering “What light was Tex_Zone_Z025_102 again?” It is just as easy for OH and your Rules to deal with human meaningful names and then your code becomes more self-documenting. Th…