OpenHab event logging more verbose after migrating: Update events logged although no change

[Mark_VG (Mark)]

Maybe take a look at this?

@laursen

Repeated ItemStateUpdatedEvent in logs

Symptom

Repeated logs of updated items without any value change:

2023-07-24 23:37:30.240 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED
2023-07-24 23:37:31.328 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED
2023-07-24 23:37:32.316 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED
2023-07-24 23:37:33.419 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED
2023-07-24 23:37:34.466 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED
2023-07-24 23:37:35.649 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateUpdatedEvent ] - Item 'Contact_VeluxRoom3' updated to CLOSED

Mitigation

See After upgrade to Openhab 4: a lot of “Item updated to” in the log - #3 by MathiasVDA

There’s also a pull request to fix this in the distribution - can be tracked here:

Make sure updated log4j2.xml configuration is used by wborn · Pull Request #1561 · openhab/openhab-distro · GitHub