Getting the value of related items using a group

[rossko57]

I didn’t really follow what problem you are having from the text or example; but going from the posting title, this may help -

[Rules DSL] Get item from string name!

For a couple years now, I’ve been wanting/looking for a way to construct an item from its name as a string. There are other ways to do this, and the most popular requires the item to be in a group, which can have it’s challenges. I’ll keep this short and SWEET… I finally figured it out, and it is extremely simple! For OH 2.x, you’ll need this import… import org.eclipse.smarthome.model.script.ScriptServiceUtil For OH 3.x, this import instead… import org.openhab.core.model.script.ScriptService…

Before that was available, we used to search in a Group for members with name=whateverstringwemade