Network binding "connects" when device is not on the network

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I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while. My phone is connected through the network binding. But when I turn off wifi on my phone, Openhab still makes a brief connection every minute.
Things

Thing network:pingdevice:zPhone "zPhone" [hostname="192.168.1.111", retry=5, timeout=57000, refresh=11000]

Items

Switch   zPhoneOnline  "Z Phone"         <icon_presence> ( gPresenceZ ) { channel="network:pingdevice:zPhone:online" }

Logs

2020-06-07 11:01:15.010 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:01:15.024 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:01:15.044 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:01:15.067 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:01:15.082 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:01:15.099 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:01:59.581 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:01:59.598 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:01:59.614 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:01:59.624 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:01:59.644 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:01:59.666 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:15.020 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:02:15.036 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:02:15.055 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:02:15.070 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:15.087 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:15.106 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:59.590 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:02:59.606 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:02:59.628 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:02:59.631 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:59.652 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:02:59.669 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:15.052 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:03:15.070 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:03:15.091 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:03:15.099 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:15.118 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:15.142 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:59.615 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:03:59.630 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:03:59.654 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:03:59.660 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:59.678 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:03:59.696 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

2020-06-07 11:04:15.064 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command ON

2020-06-07 11:04:15.083 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become ON

2020-06-07 11:04:15.107 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from OFF to ON

2020-06-07 11:04:15.116 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'zPhoneOnline' received command OFF

2020-06-07 11:04:15.132 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - zPhoneOnline predicted to become OFF

2020-06-07 11:04:15.148 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - zPhoneOnline changed from ON to OFF

I checked the logs during a time that I was not at home and it showed the same thing. I’ll explain right now, the odd times for refresh and timeout were an experiment to get it to happen something other than once a minute but it didn’t change anything.

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Commands don’t come from the binding. Review your rules for the originator? Or do you represent it in your UI with a Switch widget, instead of a text only display?

3

Interesting. I have a main group, gPresence, with two more groups for my wife and I then within those are each of our phones. It seems like when I told the parent group, gPresence, to turn off, it changed the status of the sub-groups which then was sent to our phones. So the group state would turn on, then a different rule would set it back to off and the process would repeat. Thanks for your help @rossko57. I changed the other rule around a little and it seems to be working for the last 30 minutes.

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You cannot command a Group to change state (because a Group state is derived from it’s members)
When you do send a command to a Group, by design it ignores the command for itself, but instead distributes the command to all members.

Of course, whatever effect the command has on the member Items may eventually also affect the Group state.

You might need to review how Groups work and why you would want to try to force its state.

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I thought I had the concepts down but maybe I need to revisit it again. Thanks again.