Help With HS100 Smart Plug and the tplinksmarthome binding

Add-ons Bindings
1

Hello, me and my friend tried our best at installing the TP-Link HS100 on OpenHAB 2.
We checked the documentation and copied & configured it. It still doesnt seem to work, could any of you give us a tip or the right source code?

tplinksmarthome.things:
tplinksmarthome:hs100:a [ ipAddress=“192.168.178.100”, refresh=1 ]

tplinksmarthome.items:
Switch HS100_a { channel=tplinksmarthome:hs100:a:switch }

default.sitemap:

sitemap default label="Startseite"
{
Text label="-" icon="poweroutlet" {
		Frame label="-" {
			Text label="-"
			Switch label="No1" item=HS100_a icon="poweroutlet"
			
		}
       }
}
2

There are 2 errors in your files:

  1. in tplinksmarthome.things you have the wrong quotes, although hardly visible: but “ should be "
  2. in tplinksmarthome.items: you are missing te quotes: with the channel. It should be channel=“tplinksmarthome:hs100:a:switch”
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3

Thank you very much for the quick reply.

Now we would like to turn them on and off on different days of the week & the time. I know there’s a way to configure that in a .rules file, but the documentation doesn’t help too much with that.
Could you provide me with a guideline/explanation on how to do it?

4

If you have static requirements on when you want to switch on and off you probably want to use cron-style triggers as described here: https://docs.openhab.org/configuration/rules-dsl.html#time-based-triggers The most complicated part is probably getting the proper cron expression, if you’ve never seen that before. In the end you get something like:

rule "switch on"
when
    // turn on every day 7:30
    Time cron "0 30 7 * * ?"
then
    HS100_a.sendCommand(ON)
end

If you want to interactively set switching points you can look here: https://github.com/openhab/openhab1-addons/wiki/AlarmClock