Simple Timer-Rule does not work... but why?

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
1

Hi there,
i am quite new to openhab2. After connecting all my smart stuff to OH2, I now want to setup a simple rule:

In my kitchen there is a water boiler and a lightstripe. The Boiler can be controlled with a smart power socket. When I turn on the powersocket (with OH2 or the hardware button on the socket), the lightstripe in the kitchen should turn red. After 15 minutes the powersocket should turn off and the lightstripe goes back to its former state.

So here is my code:

rule "r_BoilerAutoOff"
when 
    Item OnOffPlug1_Switch changed from OFF to ON 
then
    var HSBtype formercolor = Lightstrip_Regal_Color
    var HSBtype heatingcolor = new HSBtype(0,100,100)
    Lightstrip_Regal_Color.sendCommand(heatingcolor)
    createTimer(now.plusSeconds(30), [|
        OnOffPlug1_Switch.sendCommand(OFF)
        Lightstrip_Regal_Color.sendCommand(formercolor)
        ])
end

Unfortunately it doesn’t work. Any Ideas why?
Thanks for suggestions

2

Use HSBType and where did you define formercolor?

3

the formercolor is the state of the lightstripe before it turns red

4

OK, formercolor was my mistake.

5

Try this

var HSBtype formercolor = Lightstrip_Regal_Color.state as HSBType
var HSBtype heatingcolor = new HSBtype(0,100,100)
6

Strange… it still does not work.
If I reduce the rule to

rule "r_BoilerAutoOff"
when 
    Item OnOffPlug1_Switch changed from OFF to ON
then
     createTimer(now.plusSeconds(10), [|
        OnOffPlug1_Switch.sendCommand(OFF)
         ])
end

the boiler turns off. But if I add another sendCommand line in that code block, the rule stops working. What am I doing wrong?

7

It has to work!
Try

...
logInfo("_","1")
    createTimer(now.plusSeconds(10), [|
logInfo("_","2")
        OnOffPlug1_Switch.sendCommand(OFF)
logInfo("_","3")
        OnOffPlug1_Switch.sendCommand(ON)
logInfo("_","4")
        ])
logInfo("_","5")
end

and post event.log and openhab.log please.