[SOLVED] Problem restoring Switch item from influxdb

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Dim

(from what I know)… Item state restoration is fired with a couple of (milli)seconds of delay after startup.

You can actually somewhat infer when it occurs by watching the logs. The restoreOnStartup cannot start until some time (milliseconds) after you see “Loading model mapdb.persist” (replace mapdb.persist with the database you are using for restoreOnStartup) in openhab.log. Most of the time on my system this occurs after the .items are loaded.

@Dim

I think @rlkoshak has posted a solution around this startup delay timer somewhere but I can’t find it now

I don’t recall writing something for this in particular but I’m constantly coming across posts I’ve written that I have no memory writing. It would just be a standard timer as you describe I think.

@OMR

I could just define a virtual Switch that expire sets when timing out, and trigger a rule that will do the restore?

Indeed you can do a timer like that. See Design Pattern: Expire Binding Based Timers for a writeup.

@vzorglub

It’s at the bottom of the persistence docs