How to: integrate OH with a Texecom alarm system

[MDAR (Stuart Hanlon, UK importer of Velbus hardware)]

@Taylo.97

How would I modify the rule/items to be able to use both pieces of data even though they are separated by the return?

Hi

You might be able to leverage the technique that Rick kindly explains here :-

[SOLVED] BBC weather RSS Latest Title split to <64 characters for Velbus OLED (AKA Splitting Strings)

I wanted to be able to display a short string on the Velbus OLED panels that gave a description of the weather. (I’m sure that Cédric will add the Edge Lit Oled panels to the Velbus binding when his schedule permits.) I’ve managed to use a simple rule to copy “Now playing” information from music systems to the OLEDs of Velbus panels, but the weather is more of an issue because the BBC RSS feed can be longer than the 64 character limit of a Velbus panel. (Also it takes too long to scroll acro…

As further expanded here, when trying to extract fields from line feed delimited string from the APCaccess UPS command.

APC UPS Binding

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