Log errors while using grouped items

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
1

Although there is a limited number of similar issues found in the www, I couldn’t find a solution:

I am using groups for my rollershutter items and during openhab startup that setup throws an error. During normal operation there are no errors:

2016-05-22 17:37:13.878 [WARN ] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - State 'STOP' is not valid for group item 'gRollershutterKitchen' with base type 'Rollershutter'
2016-05-22 17:37:13.883 [ERROR] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - Group function 'OR' requires two arguments. Using Equality instead.
2016-05-22 17:37:13.885 [ERROR] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - Group function 'NOT AND' requires two arguments. Using Equality instead.
2016-05-22 17:37:13.915 [WARN ] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - State 'STOP' is not valid for group item 'gRollershutterKitchen' with base type 'Rollershutter'
2016-05-22 17:37:13.917 [ERROR] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - Group function 'OR' requires two arguments. Using Equality instead.
2016-05-22 17:37:13.918 [ERROR] [i.internal.GenericItemProvider] - Group function 'NOT AND' requires two arguments. Using Equality instead.

Fortunately all is working fine but I’m still concerned about those errors. Any ideas?

items:

Group    gUG
...
Group gRollershutter "Rollläden" <rollershutter>
Group gRollershutterEG "Rollläden EG" <rollershutter> (gRollershutter)
Group gRollershutterSouth "Rollläden Süd" <rollershutter> (gRollershutter)
Group:Rollershutter:OR(UP, DOWN, STOP) gRollershutterKitchen "Rollläden Küche" <rollershutter> (gUG)

Rollershutter FibFGR222_Kitchen_East "Jal Küche Ost [%d %%]" (gRollershutterEG, gRollershutterKitchen) {zwave="11:command=switch_multilevel,invert_state=false,invert_percent=true"}
Rollershutter FibFGR222_Kitchen_South_L "Jal Küche Süd L [%d %%]" (gRollershutterSouth, gRollershutterEG, gRollershutterKitchen) {zwave="12:command=switch_multilevel,invert_state=false,invert_percent=true"}
Rollershutter FibFGR222_Kitchen_South_R "Jal Küche Süd R [%d %%]" (gRollershutterSouth, gRollershutterEG, gRollershutterKitchen) {zwave="13:command=switch_multilevel,invert_state=false,invert_percent=true"}

sitemap:

...
            Text label="Rollläden"
                {
                Text item=gRollershutterEG {
                Switch item=gRollershutterEG mappings=[UP="Auf", STOP="X", DOWN="Zu"]
                Frame    {
                        Switch item=gRollershutterKitchen mappings=[UP="Auf", STOP="X", DOWN="Zu"]
                        Switch item=gRollershutterSouth mappings=[UP="Auf", STOP="X", DOWN="Zu"]
                        }
                        Group item=gRollershutterEG
                    }
                }    
...
2

I thnk the group definition is wrong, it should be

Group:Rollershutter:OR(UP, DOWN) gRollershutterKitchen "Rollläden Küche" <rollershutter> (gUG)

because boolean OR for Rollershutter is either UP or DOWN. STOP isn’t allowed here (as the warning states).

3

You are right, after removing the STOP in the item definition there are no errors in the log anymore and when I map the STOP to the group in my sitemap that command still works.

BUT: according to the openHAB wiki, explanation of item types, the STOP command should be no problem:

  • Rollershutter
  • Allows the control of roller shutters, i.e. moving them up, down, stopping or setting it to close to a certain percentage.
  • Accepted Data Types: UpDown, Percent
  • Accepted Command Types: UpDown, StopMove, Percent

And according to this wiki “Rollershutter Bindings” it should also work:

So, do we have a functionality which was removed, a bug or just a misunderstanding from my side? :eyeglasses:

4

From Wiki:

OR(value1, value2) :
Does a logical ‘or’ operation. If at least one item is of ‘value1’ this is returned, otherwise the ‘value2’ is returned.

So, you probably could define something like

Group Rollershutter:OR(UP,STOP) group1
Group Rollershutter:OR(DOWN,STOP) group2

but it’s not allowed to give 3 values, because the third Value will never be returned from group.

5

Okay, now I got it, thanks :grinning: