Sitemap "Switch item" on iPhone need double tap since 2.5

arjan-io · January 16, 2020, 8:59am

Hi all,

If use my iPhone to acces the Basic-UI, and after I recently updated to OH 2.5 (and since yesterday 2.5.1-2 release), I now need to double tap my Switch items on my sitemap to take effect. Anyone else has this problem? (iPhone was not updated in the meantime)

On my macbook and via the app all works fine. Trying to avoid the app though since it still clutters the log quit a bit.

Best regards

arjan-io · January 17, 2020, 11:11am

To be clearer, Switches work just fine. However, these Switches
Switch item=tvLamp_man mappings=[0="Auto", 1="Aan", 2="Uit"]
Suddenly need double tap to take effect…

rossko57 · January 17, 2020, 11:24am

Could you clarify “take effect”? i.e. do you mean that you need to tap twice to trigger rules, external devices etc.? Or to “light up” the mapped button on the UI?

I might be helpful to show your event.log of incoming commands from UI for a “double”.

arjan-io · January 17, 2020, 11:49am

I need to tap twice for the button take effect and show up in the events.log. So, if I single tap on e.g. “auto” nothing happens. No logs, no rule triggers, nothing. When I tap double, there is a single input in the events.log and the rule that is ‘attached’ to this item is fired just once.

I only have this problem since 2.5 on my iPhone with Safari. macBook with safari works OK just as the openhab app on my iPhone. But the latter still fills the openhab.log with many line of errors. The former (laptop) us just not handy to use all the time.

hcp · June 6, 2020, 9:25pm

Hi,

Did you ever find a solution to this? I have the exact same problem.

arjan-io · June 22, 2020, 8:45am

No, still waiting. I am not that good of a programmer so some else needs to step in…

matushromada · March 17, 2021, 6:47pm

Hi, I can confirm this behavior on my instance version 2.5.11 stable. This problem is still present also on openHAB demo instance which is 3.0.0 stable.

Tested on:
iOS 14.4 - Safari & Chrome 87.0.4280.77 both browsers are affected

JRRandall · June 26, 2021, 11:06am

I don’t mean to bump a dead thread but this is happening for me too! I couldn’t figure out why buttons in basic UI sitemap would only sometimes work for me on iOS. Works great on my macOS desktop but my iPone is giving me fits. Double clicking on the buttons will make them consistently work but that is super annoying. I’m on OH 2.5 still. Sounds like 3.0 still has the problem too… does anybody know if 3.1 is the same story? Would it be helpful for me to open a ticket?

zwierbel · January 6, 2022, 1:19pm

“Feature” also available in OH 3.2.
Maybe some can open an issue for that…

zwierbel · January 6, 2022, 1:24pm

It’s a “feature”

github.com/openhab/openhab-ios

Switch with defined mappings in sitemap doesn't resend command on multiple clicks like the basic UI does

opened 05:13PM - 27 Jan 20 UTC

closed 09:34AM - 16 Feb 20 UTC

lippertmarkus

question

**Describe the bug** When declaring an item like: ``` Number Scene_General … "Scene" <sofa> ``` and having a mapping for that item in the sitemap like: ``` Switch item=Scene_General label="Scene" mappings=[1=TV, 2=Dinner, 3=Reading] ``` the behavior for pressing one of the 3 buttons multiple times is inconsistent between the basic UI and the iOS app: - In the basic UI if one of the values is already selected and you click on it again, the command is sent to the item multiple times: ``` 16:36:43.486 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemCommandEvent ] - Item 'Scene_General' received command 2 16:36:43.767 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemCommandEvent ] - Item 'Scene_General' received command 2 16:36:44.164 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemCommandEvent ] - Item 'Scene_General' received command 2 ``` - In the iOS app you can't click on an already selected button. Therefore, the command is just sent a single time (when the value of the item changed for the first time) and not multiple times like in the basic UI: ``` 16:52:48.556 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemCommandEvent ] - Item 'Scene_General' received command 2 ``` **To Reproduce** Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. Create item and sitemap like shown above 2. Open `log:tail` in karaf console 3. Open sitemap in basic UI and click multiple times on one of the buttons. Find that `Item xxx received command xxx` appears multiple times in the log 4. Open sitemap in iOS app and click multiple times on one of the buttons. Find that `Item xxx received command xxx` appears only a single time - the first time you clicked on the button. **Expected behavior** The behavior in the iOS app should be the same as in the basic UI. If I click on an already selected button it should send the command again. *My use case:* I got an infrared transmitter to control my audio equipment and a single item which stores the code to send via the transmitter. I created a switch in the sitemap with mappings to send different codes for increasing/decreasing the volume. Via the basic UI I can click multiple times on the "+" button to increase the volume and in the iOS app just a single time. *My workaround:* I created a rule to set the value to "" after each received command so that none of the buttons stays selected in the iOS app and I can click multiple times on that same button. This workaround doesn't work well as the UI in the iOS app doesn't always remove the selection when set to "" via my rule - sometimes only after reloading the current view. **Smartphone** - Device: iPhone XR - App Version: 2.2.58 (1579972061) [newest testflight version] **Additional context** Somehow similar as #42 but that issue was not further processed.