OH2 IR transmitter binding development. User input requested

[Temar (Alex)]

@rlkoshak

I don’t have a clear understanding of what you are trying to accomplish but it seems like you are trying to make the binding do too much. The job of a binding is to communicate with devices and present those devices to OH in a standardized way.

That was pretty much the information I was looking for, thank you. So it is indeed the concept of OpenHAB to do even simple checks within rules. It makes sense, but sounds a bit cumbersome for simple use cases like the one described above.

@rlkoshak

If your device has an online status, you have an online channel that gets linked to a switch or contact item.

I have implemented that already but now that I have more insights I’m wondering if I should have that online channel at all? After all I can just set the device to offline if it is not available. So should I have an online channel or is it just a waste?

@rlkoshak

Fit a remote you have either one channel or button and use a switch for each or you have one channel that represents a push button linked to a string item. When one sends a command string to that item it causes the controller to emit the corresponding it signals.

What is the better approach? That is exactly something I was wondering about. Which solution would be more flexible and fit better into the OH architecture?

@rlkoshak

If you need to combine them somehow you need to use rules and proxy Items, particularly if these are items bound to channels from multiple different bindings.

Proxy items was something I was wondering about. How would a proxy item look, which gets its on/off state from one channel and sends ON/OFF to my transmitter channel so I can send the appropriate button codes? Is this possible without using rules?

Thanks for your input.