OH3: Switch item to influx not working anymore as in OH 2.5

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

InfluxDB Error "field type conflict: input field value on measurement is type integer, already exists as type float dropped=1"

I had the same problem and was able to fix it. However, I had to look through a lot of documentation to find bits and pieces of information I needed. So, in order to help others, here’s a summary. What’s the problem? There was some change in how certain type of fields are presisted in InfluxDB. Due to that change, the definition of the field in InfluxDB, made by a previous version of OH, doesn’t match the data type that the newer version of OH is trying to put into the database. That results in…