OpenHAB 3.1 expire command does not always work

[rossko57]

This has nothing to do with the expire feature, the topic of this thread.

@mjeshurun

is the timer feature limited to 60 minutes maximum?

No.

Note that if your rule runs once, it will create a timer.
If it runs again, it will create another independent timer, but not cancel or destroy the first one. That will still go off 90 minutes after the first run.

However, I would guess you have fallen into the “orphaned timer by file editing” pitfall.

Timer causing error on "Cancel"

When you’re editing rules that spawn long-running timers, beware orphaned timers. If you edit/reload a rules file while a timer is waiting, it doesn’t go away. It will still execute at the appointed time but usually fail because the context was destroyed by rules reload.