Motion detection -> lights on - if it's dark and within time period, with timer - Help needed

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Stefanseiner

A logfile isn’t created, although the log config seems to be OK. I will look at this problem.

If you installed via apt-get you should have /var/logs/openhab2/openhab.log. By default all errors go to this file as well. If installed manually logs are in <root oh folder>/userdata/logs.openhab.log I beleive.

@Stefanseiner

When the rule is working I would prefer to “outsource” it and call it just with the room-token. Because I’ll use this motion rule in 5 rooms.

Reusable Functions: A simple lambda example with copious notes

Major Edit: Rewrote with the cleaner OH 2.3 syntax. The example lambda on the OH 1 wiki is overly complex and as written will not work in OH 2. This quick example will show a super simple lambda example with copious notes. Here is the code without comments. It takes in an Item, logs it’s state and returns a slightly modified version of the String logged. val log= [ GenericItem s | logInfo("lambda", s.state.toString) s.state.toString + " logged" ] rule "Call Lambda" when // some t…