Openhab2 cron trigger problems

[sihui]

I’ve seen several posts the last days complaining about timer problems (also in the German forum), maybe it’s time to open an issue for that?

Cron Trigger not reliable

On my system that runs every time the seconds are equal to 0, i.e. once a minute - see https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Rules#time-based-triggers - in Openhab the first field is seconds not minutes. Having said that there is a problem with the scheduling of rules. A recent release corrected startup error messages, but in the process appears to have allowed the rules to run multiple times. Editing the rule reloads it and correctly schedules it. There are some other threads on the same …