Hue Binding / Osram Plug / Accepted Item Type = "SwitchItem"

Alexaas · December 5, 2017, 7:01pm

Hi,
today I got an Osram Smart Plug and connected it to my hue bridge. Then I added it as Thing using Paper UI. But the accepted item type for this Thing is “SwitchItem”. Shouldn’t it be “Switch”. I cannot assign any item, Where does the accepted item type come from and can I fix this somehow? Looks like a bug here.

Regards,
Alex

Kai · December 5, 2017, 8:47pm

Where do you see “SwitchItem”? Do you have a screenshot?

Alexaas · December 5, 2017, 8:58pm

The first screenshot shows the Thing with the accepted item type “SwitchItem”. (all my other Swith Things have “Switch”). If I try to create an Item from here also the ItemType “SwitchItem” is used. The creation fails with “invalid ItemType”

Alexaas · December 6, 2017, 7:24am

This issue seems to be fixed already since some month:

github.com

eclipse/smarthome/blob/master/extensions/binding/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue/ESH-INF/thing/channels.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<thing:thing-descriptions bindingId="hue"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:thing="http://eclipse.org/smarthome/schemas/thing-description/v1.0.0"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://eclipse.org/smarthome/schemas/thing-description/v1.0.0 http://eclipse.org/smarthome/schemas/thing-description-1.0.0.xsd">

    <!-- Color Channel -->
    <channel-type id="color">
        <item-type>Color</item-type>
        <label>Color</label>
        <description>The color channel allows to control the color of a light.
            It is also possible to dim values and switch the light on and off.
        </description>
        <category>ColorLight</category>
        <tags>
            <tag>Lighting</tag>
        </tags>
    </channel-type>

    <!-- Brightness Channel -->

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How do I get the updated version of the Binding?

sihui · December 6, 2017, 7:50am

The HUE binding is part of ESH, you will need to upgrade to the latest snapshot.

There are upgrade instructions for all platforms available in the docs:

http://docs.openhab.org/installation/index.html

Alexaas · December 6, 2017, 10:18am

Thanks! I think I can do so using the openhabian config tool. But up to now I always used the stable version. Is it a bigger risk to switch everything to a snapshot? Or wouldn’t it be better to update the hue binding separately somehow?

sihui · December 6, 2017, 10:24am

Because it is part of ESH it’s a bit complicated to do that. And it may not work at all if the runtime has been changed to match the current HUE binding.

Make a backup and upgrade, no risk (if you do it right → look at the docs).