Network Binding not working for presence

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Good evening

I have Openhab installed on a Raspberry PI 2, I already installed the Network binding and added the following to the Items file:

Switch Presence_Mobile_Andres "Celular de Andres" <network> { channel="network:device:192_168_0_200:online" }

and the Sitemap file:

Switch item=Presence_Mobile_Andres label="Celular de Andres"

am I doing anything wrong?

please help!!

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Did you create a Thing (either via PaperUI or via a Things file)?
If using file: post it, if using PaperUI, use the Channel UID

I think that the second field in the channel definition cannot be device
It should be either pingdevice or servicedevice

Ref: https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/network/#thing-configuration

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Your item should be:

Switch Presence_Mobile_Andres "Celular de Andres [%s]" <network> { channel="network:device:192_168_0_200:online" }

and your sitemap:

Text item=Presence_Mobile_Andres
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why not Switch Vincent? it’s a valid sitemap element
and in theory (I don’t use it), the network channel online will work with a switch
i think the error is in the channel definition of the Thing

5

Because the Switch in the UI is used to send a command
In this case it’s only a status display

Probably, I only saw the fact that it was not displaying the status with [%s] but it did because he is using sitemap Switch

@carloszacu
Rescan the network things and you should get different channels for the phone
Try others

Also, just comes to mind. Did you assign a static IP to you phone?

6

you guys are awesome!!

you were right, I just needed to update the channel to:

Switch Presence_Mobile_Andres "Celular de Andres" <network> { channel="network:pingdevice:192_168_0_200:online" }

just the “ping” part missing :slight_smile:

thanks a lot peeps, you rule!

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