Need a little help transforming DSL Rules to the new JSScript

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@DanE

For some reason my custom Metadata doesn’t appear in the Metadata list.

That doesn’t mean it’s not there. Because of limitations the UI can currently only show will known metadata, not custom metadata, in that list.

@DanE

because I cannot set a fixed value.

OH 3 Examples: How to boot strap the state of an Item

Intro There is a perennial problem that has been with us since the beginning. Sometimes an Item will have a state that is relatively static and is essentially hard coded. There are multiple ways you can deal with this problem including: create a System started rule to populate the Item with it’s state; if you use restoreOnStartup you can even remove the System started rule after the first run update the Item using the Karaf Console with smarthome:update update the Item from the REST API Docs I…

@mark_leonard_tuil

but I use datetime items for this.

I’ve published a rule template that does this.

[Deprecated] Alarm Clock Rule

It is already at the top of the deprecated time of day tutorial. [Deprecated] Design Pattern: Time Of Day I’ve not added it to the docs for this rule template because I don’t want people to think it’s limited for use in just this one example. All this template does is schedule a rule to run based on the state of a DateTime Item. Nothing more, nothing less. But even with that simple capability it is useful in its own right and useful in many different ways.

It’s a good approach too unless the timer needs additional information from the rule that triggered it.