[OH2] Read property of a thing in rule

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Detecting offline Things in a less stupid way

This is an interesting topic, and one that I have spent quite some time on pondering since I took my very first steps with OpenHAB several years ago… To test the “internal monitoring” approach I have had the followig rule running for a while on one of my Z-Wave devices, and it seems to do the job: rule "B01T010" when Thing "zwave:device:e402b8c8:node26" changed then var Status = ThingAction.getThingStatusInfo("zwave:device:e402b8c8:node26").getStatus() logInfo("b_zwave", "Node 26 " +…