If a Thing has properties, it is easy to see them in Main UI. However (correct me if I am wrong) there is nowhere in Main UI to see properties of a Channel (nor via the REST API).
One would expect the properties to be revealed via the Channel Details link..
Not all Channels have properties that can be modified. For those Channels that do have properties that can be modified the “Channel Details” link will say “Configure Channel” instead.
And clicking on that will present a form where those properties can be changed.
The properties are returned as part of the response to the GET /rest/things{thingUID} end point.
{
"channels": [
{
"linkedItems": [
"Weekend_Day",
"Holiday_Day",
"Default_Day"
],
"uid": "astro:sun:local:rise#start",
"id": "rise#start",
"channelTypeUID": "astro:start",
"itemType": "DateTime",
"kind": "STATE",
"label": "Start Time",
"description": "The start time of the event",
"defaultTags": [],
"properties": {},
"configuration": {
"offset": 0,
"earliest": "00:00",
"latest": "00:00"
}
},
They are in the configuration section.
For file based Things I would expect the “Channel Details” to present the properties or to have a “Configure Channel” link which opens a read only version of the form. But I have little experience with file based Things so maybe something is broken there.
Hi @rlkoshak thanks for the answer. I am creating the Channels and respective Properties dynamically in code. So it is neither based on xml nor on a things file. And I want to use the UI to see and confirm what was set. I dont know how to set such property as modifiable, but in any case I see “Channel Details” rather than “Configure Channel”. And the Channel Details page does not show the properties.
Does the JSON returened by the REST endpoint have a “configuration” element and do your properties appear there?