How to get notified about offline (non communicating) Z-wave sensors?

[Andrew_Rowe]

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Device Offline Rule

Problem Statement Often we have one device that populates the states of multiple Items. When that device goes offline, it can be important in some cases to modify those Items to UNDEF so Rules and the user knows that there is something wrong and it may take alternative actions. In some cases, the binding will handle this for you. For example, the MQTT 2.x binding will set all Items linked to one of it’s Thing’s Channels to UNDEF if the connection to the broker is lost. But other bindings may no…

Detecting offline Things in a less stupid way

Hi, Detecting offline Things is important for me, because I want to know if, for example, the doorbell sensor is broken or the intruder alarm has lost its connection to openhab. I currently use a stupid hacky Expect script to do this (see here). I’m looking at replacing this with something sensible given that, for some time, there’s been a way to read the status of a Thing in a rule, e.g.: var status = ThingAction.getThingStatusInfo("zwave:device:zstick:node51").getStatus() logInfo("TEST","St…