Race condition: Rule activation vs. state value?

[rossko57]

@stevenc88

Is this expected behavoir?

Yes.

ReentrantLock - correct use or not?

That’s right. When a command arrives on the OH event bus, it triggers any rules looking for ‘received command’. It triggers any bindings that might pass the command to external devices. It also triggers the autoupdate feature that generates an update of the Item’s state (unless inhibited). The race is on … what happens first is indeterminate, but autoupdate effect is always a finite time later. So, a rule triggered by received command that examines the Item.state may get state from befo…