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

[dastrix80 (Kris K)]

Fair enough

Whats the purpose of this then on an item which has no binding channel?

OH 3 Examples: How to boot strap the state of an Item

Intro There is a perennial problem that has been with us since the beginning. Sometimes an Item will have a state that is relatively static and is essentially hard coded. There are multiple ways you can deal with this problem including: create a System started rule to populate the Item with it’s state; if you use restoreOnStartup you can even remove the System started rule after the first run update the Item using the Karaf Console with smarthome:update update the Item from the REST API Docs I…

Makes no sense to me to set meta data that set its time, to not carry across. I dont see the point of the entire post made by Rich when I could have easily just set the values to 1, persisted it for restore on startup. The whole metadata thing for this purpose only doesnt seem useful.

Anyway, ill add them to persistence.

Once that’s done the rule runs @rlkoshak but the times for Default_Night etc are incorrect, despite me having the correct Ephemeris.

Its currently 9.28pm (NIGHT) but this shows:

openhab> openhab:status Default_Night
2021-09-17T00:00:00.000+1000
openhab> openhab:status TimeOfDay
DAY
openhab>