"Dummy" item without thing attached

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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I recently moved from OH1 to OH2 and I’m still working on cleanup but I thought this was working.

I have an item like this in my items file and I can see the item listed in the items section of the designer.

Number Scene_General "Scene" (gDEBUG)

But if I change the scene number I get this in the openhab.log

Received HTTP POST request at 'items/Scene_General' for the unknown item 'Scene_General'.

Is there a special way that an item without a thing attached would need to be created in OH2?

Thanks

2

I see nothing wrong with what you are trying to do or the snippet you provided. Any more information to help identify the cause?

3

Here is what I have in the sitemap:

Selection item=Scene_General label="Scene Selection" mappings=[0="off", 1="TV", 2="Night"]		
Switch item=Scene_General label="Scene" mappings=[0="off", 1="TV", 2="Night"]

and here are the rules that interact with the item:

rule "Hue TV"
	when
		Item Scene_General received command 1
	then
			gHUE?.members.forEach(item,i|createTimer(now.plusSeconds(i+10)) [|sendCommand(item, OFF)])
			Thread::sleep(2000)
			Toggle_2.sendCommand(ON)
			Color_2.sendCommand("55,83,50")
			
			//hue_on.apply(Toggle_2,Color_2,55,83,50)
end

rule "Hue Night"
	when
		Item Scene_General received command 2
	then
		gHUE?.members.forEach(item,i|createTimer(now.plusSeconds(i+10)) [|sendCommand(item, OFF)])
		Thread::sleep(2000)
		sendCommand(Toggle_3,ON)
		sendCommand(Color_3, "0,80,10")
		//hue_on.apply(Toggle_3,Color_3,0,80,10)
		//hue_off.apply(Color_2,Toggle_2)
		//hue_off.apply(Color_1,Toggle_1)
		//hue_off.apply(Toggle_4,Toggle_4)
end

rule "Hue Off"
	when
		Item Scene_General received command 0 OR Item gHUE received command OFF
	then
		gHUE?.members.forEach(item,i|createTimer(now.plusSeconds(i+10)) [|sendCommand(item, OFF)])
		postUpdate(Scene_General, 0)
		postUpdate(Toggle_1, OFF)
		postUpdate(Toggle_2, OFF)
		postUpdate(Toggle_3, OFF)
		postUpdate(Toggle_4, OFF)
end

If that doesn’t help then I guess I’ll just have to start testing everything little by little when I have time.

Thanks

4

Should an item added to an item file be visible in paperui/habmin as an item?

5

I believe the answer is No and Yes. PaperUI is not expected to work with Items from any .items files

Habmin2 should work

6

Thanks, it’s not showing up in either. All of my items are defined via an items file and many of them do show up but maybe that’s because they are attached to a thing? I will dig in this weekend and try to figure out what is going on.