New rule engine startup - rule initialisation

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

The next gen rule engine has had a lot of updates since 2.3. The issue reported in the OP may no longer be an issue on a newer build. It seems to not effect everyone all the time. Here is an open ESH issue for what is reported in the OP…
https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/issues/4324#issuecomment-427836598

Also, this would cause a problem with your use of the JSONPATH transform…

JSONPATH Transformation Service vs. JSONPATH

Purpose Explain recent history of the functionality, along with faults Describe a breaking change that is committed to ESH and is currently in the OH 2.3.0 snapshot Describe what I have proposed in the issue that the breaking PR was trying to resolve My current workaround History of functionlity from OH 2.0.0 to OH 2.3.0 snapshot 1194 (January 23) [approximately] The JSONPATH Transformation Service uses Jayway JSONPATH. When the path is definite, JSONPATH returns a string value, and the JSON…

I suggest you setup JSR223-Jython, which includes a startup delay script to prevent the loading of rules until everything has been loaded. The links I provided go to a branch that has not been released yet, but I hope to have the PR merged this weekend.