Detecting offline Things

[dan12345 (Dan)]

Looks like with OH2.1 there is a proper way of detecting offline Things. Haven’t tried it yet as am insufficiently brave to use a snapshot!

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Using Hue ONLINE / OFFLINE Events in rules

Recent updates (Spring 2017) have allowed using Thing Status Info changes in rules. I was able to use these new features to fix a lighting problem in my Frankenhouse (the light switch only controlled 1 electrical outlet, the others are always on). Using hue lights with the below rules, I now have lights responding to the physical switch (where they weren’t responding before). Note: that there can be a delay of about a minute between flipping the switch, and having all the lights turn on / off…