HABApp: Making Home Automation Easy and Fun - A Thank You Note to @Spaceman_Spiff

[RRoe (B Synnerlig)]

In my aim to eliminate all my personal helper scripts, (they make my scripts harder to share with others community members) I’ll try to use “vanilla” HABApp functionality. There are situations where post_update doesn’t seem to work well and I guess it’s like @watou once explained:

@watou

If you want to tell something to change (turn a light on, change the thermostat to a new temperature, start raising the blinds, etc.), then you want to send a command to an item. If your items’ states are not being updated by a binding, the autoupdate feature (see below) or something else external, you will probably want to update the state in a rule, using postUpdate.

For example the following code won’t turn the wall plug on: (updated by MQTT binding)

self.wall_plug_kitchen_item.oh_post_update_if("ON", not_equal="ON")

However the following code works well:

self.wall_plug_kitchen_item.on() if not self.wall_plug_kitchen_item.is_on() else None

Cheers!