NGRE python use room and floor information

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
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Is there an easy way to access the location information of an item within NGRE python, which I already set for habot in my configuration:

I have configured my location groups and items following the HABot Walkthrough in this community forum and using the python with Helper Libraries:

https://openhab-scripters.github.io/openhab-helper-libraries/index.html

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Location is defined using a Group. A Group, whether it is being used by HABot or for some other purpose is the same. It’s just a Group.

First you must get your Item:

myItem = ir.getItem("My_Item")

Then get the list of Groups it belongs to and see if it’s a member of the Group that represents the location.

myItem.getGroupNames.contains("Kitchen")
3

Thanks for your reply. But isn’t it possible to automatically check whether the Group is a room and although the hierachy above whether there is Floor Group above and so on?

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Automatically? No. But you can get what Group an Item is a member of and you can get what Items are members of a given Group.

See https://openhab-scripters.github.io/openhab-helper-libraries/Guides/But%20How%20Do%20I.html#groups

There is absolutely nothing special about the Groups that HABot uses. They are just regular plain old Groups.

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But the groups that HABot uses are tagged? So I can parse that groups on rules init and later check whether items inside this lists. I will try this.

Thanks again