OpenSprinkler stations jumping straight back to OFF when ON command sent

[rossko57]

@raaahbin

I got the OFF->ON->OFF behaviour

As you discovered, it’s not a true report of device state.
For background, to explain ‘predictions’ log -

Autoupdate - a primer

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@matt1

Be sure to search the forum about how you only have 2 threads and using sleep is a bad idea unless just for a quick test.

This will be fine in OH3, rules management is different.