[Solved] CalDAV Binding is ignoring .cfg changes

Marty56 · May 15, 2017, 5:51am

I am trying to use the CalDAV binding (OH2) accessing my Google calendar.
Somehow I was successful defining these convoluted .cfg files and could access my calendar entries.

But when I tried to expand it to further calendars “something” went wrong and the binding keeps on throwing error messages

I removed all the new calendar entries in those various .cfg files and also the items file but CalDav is still trying to parse a calendar which is not existing in my setup anymore.

I have tried to deinstall and install the bindings but it keeps on parsing a calendar which is not defined anymore in my .cfg files.

Dim · May 15, 2017, 6:13am

remove /var/lib/openhab2/config/org/openhab/caldav?.config and let OH2 recreate it by reading your corrected /etc/openhab2/services/caldav?.cfg
I am not sure of the config filenames, so I added ?

github.com/openhab/openhab-distro

Parameters removed from binding cfg files persist in userdata/config even after restart

opened 03:23PM - 19 Jan 17 UTC

closed 09:14AM - 12 Aug 17 UTC

rkoshak

bug

The relevant thread on the forums is here: https://community.openhab.org/t/he…lp-im-ready-to-give-up/20006/93 The issue particularly impacts 1.9 bindings like Weather, MQTT, and HTTP where there can be repeated copies of one or more setting type (e.g. more than one broker config for MQTT, more than one weather location in Weather, more than one URL to cache in HTTP). If, for example, a user decided they no longer need to poll a certain URL with the HTTP binding and remove it from their conf/services/http.cfg file, that parameter does not get removed from the corresponding userdata/config/org/openhab/http.config. Even upon a reboot, the removed parameters persist in the userdata/config version. As a user I expect updates to the services/binding.cfg file to apply, including additions, modifications, and removals. If this is the wrong repo (e.g. this is really an ESH problem) let me know and I'll repost it there. Thanks

Marty56 · May 15, 2017, 6:40am

Thanks for the advise.
Removing the files did the trick!!

Marty56 · May 15, 2017, 7:35am

Unfortunately although the “caching” problem is resolved by the workaround above, the binding as such is totally buggy and unstable.
Sometimes it can read some events but then again tons of error messages which indicate some authorization problem.
Very strange.

After 3 hours of trial and error I give up!
Would be interested if anyone has this binding working reliable for a long period of time.