Hello,
can I explicitly declare all item types qls ‘Equipment’ or ‘Point’ in openhab 4?
In the card view I would like to have all rollershutter(dimmer) and light switches under equipment and temperatures and openings under properties.
Thanks in advance
You can, but you shouldn’t and it will not have the effect you want because it goes against the entire design principle of the semantic model.
All the semantic types are just tags that are added to items. So, technically, if you wanted to you could add one of the equipment type tags to your dimmer item.
The problem is this will break most of the semantic model features in the UI because only groups are expected to have equipment type tags and the UI will try to perform group item type operations on the dimmer item resulting in (probably fatal) errors.
If you want to display all these items in aggregate, then the easiest thing you can do is add all this items to an additional (non-semantic) group. Then all you have to do is put a card on the overview page which opens that group and it will display all the selected items with the same default list view that you would see in the equipment and properties cards.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Can you tell me how to create the groups from the last paragraph so that no distinction is made between equipment and properties? I currently have groups, but the items are split between two pages. Or do I have to use a different card instead of oh-card?
This is specifically a non-semantic group that you want, so create is easy. Settings → Items → + (bottom right corner). Fill out the item create wizard and select Group as the item type.
Then select the new item after it is created and click on the change button under Direct Group Members to add all the item you want in the group regardless of what kind of semantic point they are.
For the UI, go to Settings → Pages and select whatever page you want the card to be on (I’m assuming Overview, but maybe not). Then you need to add a component to that page that has the Action options. There are lots of different choices either a generic Cell, or a Label card, or a button, whatever you want, just make sure that when you click on the menu to edit that component you see the Actions field.
In that actions field, select “Group Details”. That will then show a field where you can select the group item you just created. Fill in any other fields on the component and save it. Now when you click on that component, a popup window will appear with a list of widgets for all the item in that group.
Thanks for your time, and sorry for the late reply. Came back to that and got it working.