[SOLVED] MAP service starts too late at OH startup

[rossko57]

openHAB 2.4 isn’t particularly clever about managing the order of starting up various services. Often this manifests as rules running before Items defined etc., but it seems likely your observation is the same kind of issue.

While there are hopefully proper fixes in the future, you can find a workaround “delayed rules load” here

Cleaning up the startup process / renaming rules (windows possible)

I’ve run in some issues with the current startup process. Everything is starting at once which leads to several exceptions, errors and other problems. In my case the most annoying problem is the Homematic-Channel not found-problem. According to my opinion, a reason is the triggering of rules during startup which leads to timing problems and other race conditions which then lead to further problems after startup. I often read about moving or renaming the rules and copying back after startup, so…

It’s worth taking a harder look at the source of your warnings - they may come from use of MAP in bindings/channels etc. The “rules” fix won’t address those; but maybe if this is happening before rules load you don’t care much anyway and it’s just a nuisance report?