Help with rule to find out item state

[rossko57]

@Maednix

‘state’ is not a member of ‘java.lang.Number’;```

It’s right, you know. In your rule, checkTemp is just a string.

There’s a number of problems here.

The Items you showed us are members of a Group named checkTemp.
It seems really unwise to re-use that name for something different within your rule.

The Items you showed us are members of a Group named checkTemp.
The rule you showed is triggered off a Group named gSolltemp , doesn’t seem to be a connection here.

As we said, within the rule checkTemp is just a string. To get hold of an Item by that name, so that you can in turn get it’s state, there are a couple of well-known methods shown in this post

Design Pattern: Associated Items

Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for how to read and use DPs. Problem Statement Often one will have a number of separate Items which are all related to each other in some way. For example, one might have a Contact on a door and a DateTime to represent when the last time the door was opened. This is easy enough to keep track of if there are only one or two such Items, but if one has a lot of similar Items or is using a lot of generically coded rules where…

But finally, commands sent to an Item will not immediately update its state, indeed may not update it at all.

Item state is not updated in a rule

To add a bit of explanation, sending an Item a Command does not automatically or immediately change its state. Most items have the autoupdate feature left on by default, which you can think of like another binding. Eventually, autoupdate receives the Command and creates a state change for the Item. That might be before or after other bindings have dealt with the command (some bindings will update the Item then, some will wait for a response from an end device, some do nothing), and before or …