Dynamically showing Items

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1

My idea is:

Frame item=sRefreshON label="Manual or automatic" {
		Switch item=manualAuto label="Auto/manual" mappings=[auto="AUTO", manual="MANUAL"]		
	}

When I use AUTO so Automated rules will be apply. I know to do this way.
When I use MANUAL so I want to display two additional items.

First item with time of Manual time setting (2h,4h,6h etc), after this time set automatically AUTO mode.
Second item with switching fan speed.

2

Use the visibility tag on the sitemap to only show the desired elements when manualAuto is a certain value.

For example:

Switch item=manualAuto label="Auto/Manual" mappings=["auto"="AUTO", "manual"="MANUAL"]
Switch item=manualTime label="Manual Time" mappings=[2="2h",4="4h",6="6h"] visibility=[manualAuto=="manual"]
Switch item=fanSpeed label="Fan Speed"  mappings=["low"="LOW", "medium"="MEDIUM", "high"="HIGH"] visibility=[manualAuto=="manual"]

You need a rule to switch manualAuto back to “auto” after manualTime or fanSpeed is updated.

rule "Reset manualAuto"
when
    Item manualTime received command or
    Item fanSpeed received command
then
    Thread::sleep(5000) // wait a few seconds before changing to give user a chance to set both parameters
    manualAuto.sendCommand("auto")
end

NOTE: Assumes that manualAuto, manualTime, and fanSpeed are all String Items.

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3

Thanks for fast answer, everything works.

4

One more question. If I have rule like this:

rule "Reset manualAuto"
when
    Item manTime received update 
then
    if (manTime.state == "hour") {
    Thread::sleep(5000) // wait a few seconds before changing to give user a chance to set both parameters
    manAuto.sendCommand("auto")
    }
    else if {
    (manTime.state == "two")
    Thread::sleep(10000) // wait a few seconds before changing to give user a chance to set both parameters
    manAuto.sendCommand("auto")
    }
    else if { 
    (manTime.state == "four")
    Thread::sleep(50000)
    manAuto.sendCommand("auto")
    }
end

The first two are okay but third no sleep, send command immediately

5

I believe you made a mistake in the else if statements. The condition should be placed before the opening curly brace. For example:

else if (manTime.state == "two") {

Br, Chris.