Problem with new MCP23017 binding in Openhab 2.3

[aogorek]

Hi,
I’m the author of this binding and I have to admit, that I started to have the same problems. I investigated it a little, and it turnes out that items file is loaded BEFORE things file, so input pins are not initialized.

I described it here:

Invalid load order of configuration file - not calling channelLinked

Hello, I’m using stable 2.3.0.1 version on RPI. From some time I have problem with proper working of my binding MCP23017. Output pins works fine, bud INPUT does not. I’ve been investigating problem and discovered that my contact.items file (which contains definition of my input Items and referes to specified thing) is loaded before my mcp.things file - which contains definition of thing. So - “channelLinked” method of thingHander is not called because thing is not yet initialized, and MCP23…