Faulty, old value of Item within rule

[rossko57]

@Matthias_Kaufmann

and I have no idea why.

Because commands are asynchronous. Any state update happens later.

[SOLVED] Error with averageSince function in text-based rules (persistence - influxDb, mapdb)

WARNING sendCommand is asynchronous, it goes off onto openHABs event bus and actions it may trigger - like autoupdate changing the Item’s state - will happen shortly, but not immediately. The rule doesn’t stop and wait for that to happen. So the Item state a few lines later may be either the new state or the old state. Maybe that is what you intend, but it is not obvious. It would probably be helpful to know what you were going to do math on logInfo("BathroomFans.rules", "About to do math…