Google Assistant doesnāt read exposed items, but it does require the cloud connector to be functioning. So if youāre only using GA, then you donāt need to expose any items via PaperUI.
The key here is that you need to have your items tagged and labelled in text-based .items files. Thereās currently no way to do that in PaperUI. If youāre already using .items files, then ALL of your items must have labelsā¦not just the ones that you want GA to see.
Yes. I came across this thread with a new OH installation and the need for IFTTT (itās the only supported platform by my sleep / bed sensors). It works for me and my two items are not list in OH.
The cloud connector simply exposes the REST API via https://myopenhab.org so you can interact with any of your items.
I think that was mentioned much earlier in this thread or another one. I didnāt understand what the person was saying at first, because I habitually include labels on all of my items (so it didnāt affect me).
Please report back if this solves your problem. I havenāt tested it myself, but if it is the issue then I think the docs could be edited for clarity.
Iāve always received āunable to update settings. Please check connectionā without any details at my side or at myopenhab.org. Iāve found that one of my items has 2 tags (āLightingā, āSwitchableā):
Iāve removed one tag and everything connected ok now! GA is working after many hours of debug!!!
I can be wrong, but this item line was generated by home builder.
Itās a simple issue, but unfortunately error handling is so awful that itās not possible to understand whatās wrong
Russel, thanks for your help. It was valuable note that items are not required to be āexposedā to cloud to work with GA.
Hi, apologies if Iāve missed a thread, but as of today, should I be able to expose a new item (my 10th) to Openhab cloud to use with IFTTT integration?
I have nine items exposed for a while, but trying to expose a 10th fails. Iāve followed the same (and presumably correct) steps Iāve done previously, exercised its state etcā¦
Yes this is concerning for me aswell. Request @digitaldan for items being exposed to the cloud be re-enabled as they do not cause any server load issue. So ifttt --> openhab items trigger works as expected.
Ok. Thanks for the update. A couple of questions for the community please:-
can anyone say when this will be re-enabled? I fully appreciate the immense amount of hard work that goes into this project, for free, but seems to have been an issue for some time? Is the a plan to fix?
on one related thread Iāve seen a mention of Webhooks being a potential alternative to integrate OpenHab with IFTTT. (I.e. Webhooks is the āThatā in IFTTT) and this avoids the need to expose items. Does anyone have any detail on how this could be done?
See post 138 by mgbowman above in this threadā¦the downside is that it passes your username and password in plain text. No problems if youāre not fussed but itās not something I want to be doing.
Iām sorry, but no itās not. It clearly states you need the tags, but is silent on whether specifying those within PaperUI is sufficient. Currently, Iām suspecting that it isnāt sufficient as my items are not being discovered by Alexa even though Iāve given them appropriate tags. If this is the case it might be nice to explicitly state so.
I regularly have the problem that my raspberry pi 4 is no longer connected to the cloud. This week I have had it twice. It was offline from 7to 7h(12h) I think there is a reconnect somewhere every 12h?
I get status code 500ter back in my app. All notifications are still working though.
I noticed that the problem is solved after unplugging and directly deer plugging in the network cable.