Offline as a State or a Channel, or both?

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@mhilbush

And then have an implicit variable (e.g. triggeringThing ) that you could reference the thing that was updated, or whose status changed.

This is not available using the rules DSL, but it has been available in the new rule engine for a few years. With the Jython helper libraries, you’d use event.thingUID to get the triggering Thing UID… Event Object Attributes — openHAB Helper Libraries documentation.

Design Pattern: Working with Groups in Rules

With JSR223, you could iterate through the ItemChannelLinkRegistry, but I decided it was more efficient (and easier) to have some sort of mapping from ThingUID to Item name. Here are two examples using JSR223-Jython and openhab2-Jython. The first uses a dictionary for the mapping, the second uses another Item. @rule("Alert: Kodi system status update") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:familyroom changed") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:bedroomupstairs changed") @when("Thing kodi:kodi:bedroomdownstairs changed") …