Detecting offline Things in a less stupid way

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@AlexKay

Would it make sense to open an issue for this?

The new rule engine handles this, so IMO it is doubtful much effort would go into adding features to the old rule engine, but you never know!

@AlexKay

It would be easier if something like triggeringItem exists for Things

Design Pattern: Working with Groups in Rules

With JSR223, you could iterate through the ItemChannelLinkRegistry, but I decided it was more efficient (and easier) to have some sort of mapping from ThingUID to Item name. Here are two examples using JSR223-Jython and openhab2-Jython. The first uses a dictionary for the mapping, the second uses another Item. @rule("Alert: Kodi system status update") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:familyroom changed") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:bedroomupstairs changed") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:bedroomdownstairs changed") …