I’m trying to look at migrating off 2.3 OH to 2.4/2.5.
I should in the interested of moving forward, look at moving to Mqtt2. So I’m trying to make an alarm thing, with channels for all the zones. As a concept I like this as opposed to just a bunch of items.
So my topic is: paradox/states/zones/Study_PIR/open which reports a True/False.
My thing has the following channel:
Type contact : zone3 "Study" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/zones/Study_PIR/open:state", on="True", off="False" ]
And I have an associated item. But I can never see the item change from CLOSED to OPEN.
If I read the doco can I specify that the value of True = on and False = off as I’m trying to do in my configuration?
That’s question one. The other Is about a string state (alarm state)
Where my topic can have a value of disarmed, armed_away, armed_night. I have a string channel defined as:
Type string : armstatehass "Arm State" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/partitions/Area_1/current_hass:state", allowedStates="armed_away,disarmed,armed_night"
And I expected when I set the state of the item to disarmed2 it would complain at me as it wasn’t an allowed state.
Full thing:
// Main Light
Thing mqtt:topic:alarm "Alarm" (mqtt:broker:mosquitto) {
Channels:
Type contact : heartbeat "Heartbeat" [ stateTopic="paradox/interface/MQTTInterface:state", on="online", off="offline" ]
Type string : armstatehass "Arm State" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/partitions/Area_1/current_hass:state", allowedStates="armed_away,disarmed,armed_night" ]
Type contact : zone1 "Main Door" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/zones/Main_door_PIR/open:state", on="True", off="False" ]
Type contact : zone2 "Bedroom" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/zones/Bed_room_PIR/open:state", on="True", off="False" ]
Type contact : zone3 "Study" [ stateTopic="paradox/states/zones/Study_PIR/open:state", on="True", off="False" ]
}
Full items:
Contact alarm_connection_heartbeat2 "Alarm Connection [%s]" <shield> (g_alarm) { channel="mqtt:topic:alarm:heartbeat" }
Contact alarm_zone_maindoor2 "Main Door State [%s]" <motion> (g_alarm,g_motion_detection) { channel="mqtt:topic:alarm:zone1"}
Contact alarm_zone_bedroom2 "Bedroom State [%s]" <motion> (g_alarm,g_motion_detection) { channel="mqtt:topic:alarm:zone2"}
String alarm_hb_state2 "State [%s]" (g_alarm) { channel="mqtt:topic:alarm:armstatehass"}
@David_Graeff (just so you’re notified). I know you don’t use thing files but hoping you can help.