Yeah, I think that’s a great idea. I don’t see a “subscribe” option. Am I correct in thinking that you’re setting the Announcements category to “Watching”…
And then enabling “Email me when I am quoted, replied to, my @username is mentioned, or when there is new activity in my watched categories, tags or topics”?
The only downside I see is that there’s no way to only get the watched categories. It’s all or nothing. But that’s less of a concern for people who don’t visit the community daily.
Yes that is what I did, it’s normal to know at a topic level this exists, but my guess is most people do not know you can do it at the category level. You only get 1 to 3 a month so this works well at staying updated and I know exactly when the latest milestone is ready for download.
@ yes
A direct reply to a post = yes
A reply in the thread = no
I use tracking level not watching on threads, like this one, so that no emails get sent unless it is a direct reply. Not sure if I changed the default somewhere to make it default to tracking.
I’ve realized that I can use a Gmail filter to auto-delete emails based on words in the subject line. I’ve set it up to exclude the announcements categories and personal messages. The query is:
Thanks for looking at it and doing some documentation. The other suggestion I have is to change the cloud connector so that it can detect and place a Warn into people’s logs that a breaking change is coming, and exactly what needs to change based on what it is detecting that will break. When you had done all the needed changes you do not get any more Warns and you know your good for the change when it’s made. I had a look at this a while back and it is possible and I even came up with some code changes I had tested. The cloud connector can do syntax checking and it can log so a user gets useful feedback. I got kick back that the cloud connector should not syntax check so never went ahead with it, but this could be done. Does not help people that stay on an old version, but at least an effort can be made to help guide and assist users that do update and read the logs after an update.
It might be worth mentioning that the Developer Sidebar in MainUI can search Item metadata. So if you search for “ga” you’ll get all the Items that currently have “ga” metadata. Unfortunately you’ll also get all the Items that have “ga” anywhere in the name or label of the Item too, but that’s still better than having to look through every one of your Items to remember which ones have the GA metadata.
Click on the pencil icon next to the first Item in the list to navigate to the Item’s page. If it has “ga” metadata you’ll see it listed under “metadata”.
Once the GA metadata has been verified and/or corrected, click the pushpin icon next to the Item in the list of pinned Items in the Developer sidebar to remove it from the list.
Unfortunately, my search is only giving me 5 results overall, which are definitely not all of my annotated items. Is this something that has maybe changed in OH4, because I am still on 3.4.
Hi Michael
I used Openhab 3.x with GA without any issue.
Now I upgraded OH to 4.1.2 and cannot reconnect OH to GA.
I tried:
a) removed OH from this list https://myaccount.google.com/connections
b) removed all items except one simple (.items based config) : Switch Test “Test” { synonyms=“Test2”, ga=“Switch” }
c) tried re-add OH using Google Home app - I am receiving const error -unable add OH…" but OH was re-added to this list “https://myaccount.google.com/connections”
d) enabled debug log…
I remember that the initial sync might fail if the items do not have a proper state. Can you check if your switch actually has a state before trying to connect?