[SOLVED] Too dumb to work with files :-( ? stuck at getting started with files

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

First of all, well done. Glad you stuck it through. As you said you are learning the system.

@mkjn72

paperui is not picking up any implemented stuff, be it sitemaps, items, etc. Is this intentional? what am i doing wrong. Is the ?sitemap=XXX URLkey supported? Edit: After defining stuff in my custom sitemap (and by files) I see some stuff appearing twice/double. Can this be managed, or should i just remove the file-defined items in paperui? (Not a big problem as other UI do work)

The paperUI will pick the things and items generated in the paperUI. Any items manually created will not appear in the paperUI. (You can still link them to channels)

@mkjn72

Groups need to be defined before thay can be used. Can they be the same as sitemap groups? Or is that the whole idea?

Group are a bit like any other items. Yes they need to be created before they can be used. If you define an item as part of agroup that doesn’t exist, it will be ignored. So if you want an item to belong to a group, Yes the group needs to exist. What do you mean by sitemap group? If you put a group in a sitemap, clicking on it will display the items in that group in no particular order.

@mkjn72

Log files were helpful in finding out what was going wrong. Snag: spent quite a bit of time with system not logging after manual emptying the log. It got so big that is was cumbersome to open and look through

You can use a tail command to see what is happening in the log in real time. It will only display the latest. tail has many options. Google it.
tail /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log

@mkjn72

new issue: when I switch the two lights together the individual switches do not update in basicui? I would expect them to sort of 'slave’switch to the corresponding on/off position? Edit: works as expected in classicui, not in basicui

That’s a know issue hopefully being resolved

@mkjn72

Edit: interface in iphone App is quirky, in the sense that flipped switches tend to switch back. And you would have to flip them again, and even then they will switch back to off. In general they dont reflect the actual status of lights (on/off position)

Get a real phone

@mkjn72

I cannot detect actual state of chromecast anywhere. not in interface nor logs. Need this to build my rule for: ‘PLAY video –> dim lights’ This for me is a big hurdle, should I proceed along an API/MQTT type solution? Or should the openhab2 binding support this

Click on the show more bit of the chromecast thing
There are more channels available

@mkjn72

Presence detection. I found numerous sources and content in this forum about detecting phones, but there seems to be more to it than meets the eye. Is there an accepted and documented method for this, so I can use this in rules?

Basically NO, but there are some very good template, like:

Generic Presence Detection

Edit: A rewrite to take advantage of the Debounce rule template on the marketplace. This is a tutorial to show a generic and sensor independent way to do presence detection with multiple sensors and implementing anti-flapping (i.e. all sensors must be OFF for a certain amount of time before the home goes to away). Requirements One or more Switches determines whether someone is present. If one or more of these Switches is ON then someone is presumed to be present (more complex algorithms are …

@mkjn72

Error when updating my raspberry pi, I get a public key ‘launchpad ppa’ error

Don’t know, sorry