Hello,
im using OpenHAB 2.5 with a very simple Sitemap.
sitemap Home label="Home" {
Frame {
…
Group item=Office
}
}
Since a few days the view of the IOS Sitemap changed.
For Items that are dimmeable and switchable i created two Items: A Switch and a Dimmer.
Therefore there we to Items shown in the Sitemap - A Dimmer 0 To 100 and a Switch.
Thats still the way it is when i open the Sitemap from the browser.
But the IOS App (V1) 2.4.62 shows a Dimmer with an included Switch and a Switch.
It is very annoying because now i would need two different Sitemaps. One for the browser and one for iOS.
Is this new in the App or have a done a mistake somewhere?
Generally you don’t need a separate Swtch Item in the first place. You can send ON/OFF commands to a Dimmer Item as if it were a Switch. You can use a Switch Element on a Sitemap with a Dimmer Item. So your Switch Item is redundant.
Beyond that, BasicUI and the iOS app implement rendering Sitemaps independently so it’s not wholly unusual that there might be differences in how they appear between the two. I suspect there have need recent changes to the iOS app that is intended to allow one to not need that separate Switch element, which I think is a good thing.
I no longer use Sitemaps so can’t say for sure but I suspect the change has also been made to the Android app and BasicUI as well. Changes line this trend to be coordinated. But because your are running a for year old version of OH, you don’t have the latest BasicUI.
You might look to see if there is a setting somewhere to get the old behavior back. If not, you’ll either need to:
downgrade and freeze the version of the iOS app to a version before the change (if you are not going to upgrade OH, you shouldn’t upgrade anything else associated with OH either as that increases the chances of breaking like this)
create separate Sitemaps
upgrade OH so BasicUI and the iOS app render the element the same way.
