Rules triggering not working in OH3

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I think I might know the problem.

Your Zigbee2mqtt sent this:

{"action":"single_left","battery":100,"device_temperature":29,"linkquality":165,"power_outage_count":164,"voltage":3005}

But your Openhab Thing config expected this:

      Type string : action                      [ stateTopic="zigbee2mqtt/schakelaar_50/action" ]

I have two suggestions for you:

  1. Change Zigbee2mqtt config output: attribute:
advanced:
  output: attribute

That should solve the problem.

  1. This is something I only learned muuuuuch too late in the game.
    Change your Things config to add postCommand=true just for the action one, like this:
Type string : action [ stateTopic="zigbee2mqtt/schakelaar_50/action", postCommand=true ]

And in your rule, you should trigger on received command

rule "xxx"
when
  Item schakelaar_50action received command
then
  ....
end

For years I didn’t know this trick - well because I hadn’t read the docs properly, and I used “updated”, then “changed” and had to resort to trickery to fight a behaviour where when something reloaded (e.g. the .things file refreshed), my item would get an update even though the actual button wasn’t pressed. The postCommand solved that issue.

Oh one more:

Have a look at JSScripting and JRuby for your scripting.

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