Item triggers do not work in my system

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Hello. Any item triggers seem not working in my system while time triggers do.

For example, the TestItemTrigger rule would never execute while if I replace the item trigger with a time trigger it would.

I already spent all Sunday afternoon to fix it without success. Can anyone tell me how can I debug it? Thanks.

my.rules

rule "TestItemTrigger"
when
    Item KitchenLight changed
then
    logInfo("my.rules", "KitchenLight " +  KitchenLight.state)
end

my.items
...
Switch KitchenLight    "KitchenLight [%s]"    <light>  { channel="knx:device:bridge:generic:KitchenLight" }

log:tail 
09:12:14.365 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemStateChangedEvent] - KitchenLight changed from ON to OFF
(No LogInfo output)
2

Do you get an error when saving the rule file? I would add a .toString() to your state in the loginfo. Maybe that causes a problem. I’m not sure if there’s an automatic toString() added to an item state

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I just found out that item triggers restarted operating as I rebooted my system.
It looks the rules subsystem somehow crashed while I was debugging a .rules file.
I will leave this post open for another day hoping someone can give me a hint on what could halt the rule engine. Thanks.

4

I must say that I don’t recognize that behaviour, and I have had my fair share of errors in my rules files as well. Did you maybe have an error in your rules-file before this specific rule? That might cause the rest of the rule file not to be processed and thus not in effect.