[SOLVED] Sitemap visibility for strange value

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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I recently setup zwave2mqtt and my values for my thermostat Mode coming now like
“Cool” and “Heat”

Which is fine, however, I seem to have run in to an issue with the visibility in my sitemap. I am trying to have the temperature value for CoolSet only when the HVAC_Mode=“Cool”

Setpoint item=HVAC_CoolSetPoint visibility=[HVAC_Mode=="\"Cool\""] icon="heating" minValue=68 maxValue=78 step=1

Currently configured with the above, but that doesn’t work. If i do ==“Cool” that doesn’t seem to do it either. Wondering if there is an issue with escaping quotes in the visibility?

Wondering if anyone else has seen this.

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And what is the state of `HVAC_Mode" exactly?
Can you show the log of when it changes value, please

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“Cool”

or

“Off” ect. I think that’s where I am running in to issues

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Again:

Also, you item definition, thanks

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I’d at least add a temporary sitemap line to show the Item state at issue, as it arrives at the UI

Text item=HVAC_Mode label="hvac mode [%s]"
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added the following

Text item=HVAC_Mode label="HVAC_Mode = [%s]"

shows up now as

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Well, there are quotemarks and quotemarks. Still like to see what appears in your events.log

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Roger that :slight_smile:

2020-01-13 20:37:47.150 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'HVAC_Mode' received command "Off"
2020-01-13 20:37:47.151 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - HVAC_Mode predicted to become "Off"
2020-01-13 20:37:47.153 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HVAC_Mode changed from "Cool" to "Off"
2020-01-13 20:37:47.154 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'HVAC_Mode' received command "Off"
2020-01-13 20:37:47.157 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - HVAC_Mode predicted to become "Off"
2020-01-13 20:37:49.727 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HVAC_Mode changed from "Off" to "Cool"
2020-01-13 20:37:52.180 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HVAC_Mode changed from "Cool" to "Off"
2020-01-13 20:38:10.919 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'HVAC_Mode' received command "Cool"
2020-01-13 20:38:10.920 [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item 'HVAC_Mode' received command "Cool"
2020-01-13 20:38:10.921 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - HVAC_Mode predicted to become "Cool"
2020-01-13 20:38:10.922 [nt.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - HVAC_Mode predicted to become "Cool"
2020-01-13 20:38:10.929 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - HVAC_Mode changed from "Off" to "Cool"
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I am wondering if i should just use a js transform. That way I can strip off the quotes. Also going going to open an issue on the zwave2mqtt to see if there is a reason that the values have to come across with quotes.

In the zwave2mqtt config, there are a couple options.

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according to the documentation examples.

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So it seems that when it sends any string it will come across with the quotes. Which I guess makes sense as we have all done our programming and know strings for the most part get wrapped in " or '.

Soo. with that being said. If it’s switched to json timed value. I wonder if it would still come in with quotes… guess im testing that next. If that doesn’t work. Maybe the best option will be to just do a js transform that strips the quotes and returns the raw value.

Seems like alot to get a sitemap items to show lol

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Maybe so.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a limitation/bug in visibilty handling text with included quotes.

The only other thing to wonder about is if \ is really the escape character for sitemaps (if they even have one)

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Well, I know it does… just maybe not in the visibility.

Since i have it seems to want me to send “Cool” anyway. I have the following for mappings

Switch item=HVAC_Mode mappings=["\"Off\""="Off","\"Cool\""="Cool","\"Heat\""="Heat"]

and that sends OFF as “OFF” and Cool as “Cool”

but that same format did not seem to work for visibility.

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Ok, so quick update. I did switch to doing the JSON-TimeValue combination. added the following transform to all things coming in from the zwave2mqtt.

,transformationPattern="JSONPATH:$.value"

Everything seems good now. I updated my site maps to take out the extra quotes. Added my visibility thing in. Now my temperature set value is only shown when the AC is on.