Sitemap groups not updating icon (Solved)

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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I have a sitemap that works however the groups icons are not updating as I expect them to when one of the items in the group changes. Visual Studio Code shows status updating properly from On to Off and Vise Versa. I read the openhab docs but it doesnt pinpoint that should be different from regular items that are working.

Here is my group item

Group:Switch:OR(OFF,ON) gLock "Locks [MAP(lock.map):%s]" <lock>

Here is my sitemap

		Text item=gLock label="Doors" icon="lock"{

			Frame icon="door" {
		        Text item=Zone01FrontDoorStatus label="Front Door"
				Switch item=FrontDoorLock label="Front"
			}

			Frame icon="door" {
                Text item=Zone04Door_ZoneStatus label="Cabana Bath Door"
		        Switch item=zone04DoorLock label="Cabana"
			}

			Frame icon="door" {
                Text item=Zone07Status label="Garage Interior Door"
	        Switch item=Zone07DoorLock label="Garage"

			}


		}
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One thing I see is glock is declared as a switch then sites as text in sitemap. Which is it?

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It is defined as a switch because I need it to turn on and off as the items in the group get updated. That part is working as expected. When I turn on and off devices, the group is updating properly. The text in my sitemap is also updating properly.

In my sitemap I have it defined as a text field because I don’t want the switch to show up. I don’t want to lock and unlock the doors from there, I simply want it to show the status on the outside of the sitemap and when I click it, it shows me all the items that are part of the glock group.

I am expecting that door lock to look unlocked…
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instead I see this…

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Notice the text changes but no icon change :frowning:

Once I click on the line It takes me to the frame with all the door locks, where I can open, close and see more info…

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For the lock icon, what is the name? Is it

Lock-on and lock-off

Or

Lock-unlocked and lock-locked?

Dynamic icons need the text to match the part after the hyphen in the name. If the icons are named on and off you may need a map transformation. The other option would be to rename the icons. I don’t remember the folder in the openhab install to find the icons off the top of my head. I believe the help docs have the names when you hover over them. I believe this may be the issue.

https://docs.openhab.org/addons/iconsets/classic/readme.html

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ok I think you are on to something. I was using Locked and Unlocked and had tried On and Off but not the correct open and closed as the lock icons indicate “lock-open” and “lock-closed” when I hover over them. Thanks for pointing that out!

I have my lock.map file doing this now. It still not working though :frowning:

OFF=Open
ON=Closed
undefined=Unknown
-=Unknown
NULL=Unknown

This is what I get now when the door is unlocked… text is correct but still not working. I also tried lower case…

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I also did some research on where those files are and they are hidden inside a jar file.

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lock-closed
lock-open

Try these in your : {conf}\icons\classic folder. Rename to unlocked and locked. See if it works. If not search here for groups on sitemaps and icons. I read something last night, its possible some of this does not function as expected. But lets try one last thing first.

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Ok I updated my map file to

ON=locked
OFF=unlocked

I downloaded the images and placed them in the direction, they have read permission for everyone and we’re named locked.svg and unlocked.svg respectively.

Still no change so I will continue my search.

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The icon is chosen based on the state of the Item, not on the label. Your MAP is not going to change which icon gets selected.

Since gLock is a Switch, your icons need to be named “lock-on” and “lock-off” and you must have one named just “lock”.

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@fifo I just tested what @rlkoshak said and it works.

I misspoke, I had the correct idea, but the wrong names for the icons.

I had lock-on and lock-off and it works great. I suggest putting a 3rd icon name lock and using an icon that is not a lock. This will let you know which of the 3 is being chosen.

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@Thedannymullen I went ahead and renamed the icons as @rlkoshak mentioned. it didn’t work so I went ahead and also added the open and closed versions because that’s the name I see when I hover over the icons https://docs.openhab.org/addons/iconsets/classic/readme.html. I agree with Rich that it should be On and Off based on the switch. In this case I needed to add the on and off icons instead of the open and closed since the default icons are opened and closed. I understand that the open and closed icons are extra since those would already be in the default configs of openhab and not actually used by what I am trying to do here. Is my logic correct there?

Here are my current icons and their locations… (note again the open and closed here should really be deleted but I just added them to test)

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My Items file still shows the following.

Group:Switch:OR(OFF,ON) gLock "Locks [MAP(lock.map):%s]" <lock>

Thanks for pointing out the thing about the map files I was confused about that, but am actually happy that it works that way as it provides more flexibility I think.

I restarted OH just in case but still I find that it does not update the icon. The text that is driven by the item(s) is updating correctly according to the lock.map file.

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Have you cleared your cache and restarted opemhab?

ALso, when refreshing your browser hold shift then f5 . This wi l force the browser to reload the page vs cache.

Last question of you get rid of a map file what does the text say? Does it say o n off or something else?

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That did the trick!!! I had to clear cache after making all the changes. Thank you so much! I now have a good understanding of how this works! Can’t wait to update my config so that all my icons are dynamic!

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Glad to be of help!