[SOLVED] Error in VSC when creating Timer with variables

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
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System is OH2.4 release.
I want to create a function where the lights are indicating air quality by switching color from original color (e.g. white) to a color from green to red (depending on air quality), showing this for 5 seconds and then coming back to original colors (e.g. white).

Approach is as following:

// store original vaule
var String Wo_Lowboard_co_hsb = Wo_Lowboard_co.state.toString

// calculate and set new value
var String HSBString2 =  [DO SOME CALCULATION]
sendCommand(Wo_Lowboard_co, HSBString2)

// wait 5 seconds and set back to original value
createTimer(now.plusSeconds(5)) [|
  sendCommand(Wo_Lowboard_co, Wo_Lowboard_co_hsb)
]

Problem is, that I get the following error in Visual Studio Code (VSC):

Cannot refer to the non-final variable Wo_Lowboard_co_hsb inside a lambda expression

Function itself works. Original color is been set after 5 seconds.
Any ideas of how to get rid of this error message in VSC?

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Just found the soluition myself:
Declaring variables “global” and not inside the rule solves the problem.

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You could have also changes the var to val inside your Rule and it would have fixed it as well.

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@rlkoshak, thanks. That is even better …