Rules: Was there a change in the cron functionality/format?

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
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  • Platform information:

    • Hardware: Raspi 3B
    • OS: openHABian
    • openHAB version:2.5.5-1 (Release Build)

  • Issue of the topic: Cron based rule doesn’t work anymore

Since I can think I have the follwing rule in place and it worked flawless - until a few days ago:

rule DaikinACSZ_ON
when
     Time cron "0 30 22 ? * *" 
then

This started our AC at 22:30 very day. For a few days now, the rule doesn’t fire anymore.
The AC is reachable and usable via openHAB app/webfrontend.

Was there a change in the cron format - or why isn’t it working anymore?
Haven’t changed anything and can’t find any errors in the logfile.
The rule file itself is fine and throws no errors.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Boby

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Since what build? The format hasn’t changed, but the scheduler has. Chances are you have a blocked thread, which are limited for rules running on the old rule engine. There are ways to check for these, but I don’t have it handy. You will need to check all of your rules to see which is hung up. There are threads about this.

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Did you already restart openHAB?

Maybe consider to change the rule name to be in quotes (although a one-word name without quotes should be fine)

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Also note that if you’ve added more rules, every rule must have a unique name (or only one of them works)

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Thanks everyone, after a few restarts the problem vanished.