Set ThingStatusInfo from Rule?

[TheLexus (Nino)]

Hi!

is there a way to change the ONLINE/OFFLINE state of a thing using a rule?

The background for the question is, I have zigbee2mqtt running and I get MQTT topic like zigbeebridge/thing/availability with value online/offline. If I get the topic offline I want to mark a thing as offline as some code inside oh does… is this possible?

I tried to play around with a rule that reacts on an contact item an tries do use Thing.setStatusInfo but I cannot get it to work. I always get complains about missing Enums and so on.

Thanks, Bye!
Nino

[rossko57]

[SOLVED] Enabling and disabling Things from for example Basic UI

Here is the solution how to turn ON/OFF Thing via rules with help of RestAPI sendHttpPutRequest("http://openhabianpi:8080/rest/things/network:pingdevice:15e46ce9/enable", "application/json", 'true') where this network:pingdevice:15e46ce9 is thing ID taken for example from here [thnigsn]

[TheLexus (Nino)]

Thanks. This changes the thing state to unitialized. Is it possible to switch to OFFLINE using the rest api?

[rossko57]

@TheLexus

This changes the thing state to unitialized

Good point.

@TheLexus

Is it possible to switch to OFFLINE using the rest api?

I don’t think so; but disabled is disabled. It’s kind of the opposite to enabling - you don’t really want the Thing to go ONLINE, but instead to go through it’s initializing process first. This is under control of other software - I suppose the binding.

What problems does it bring you?