I have a hopefully simple question. I’m currently cleaning my openhab configuration and finally I have 6 things which are getting automatically discovered, although they are already configured:
In the past I had “name” instead of “id”. I tought, the id could fix that topic, but it didn’t. When changing the bridge name to "harmony hub:device:Wohnzimmer as the discovery shows, the things will not be shown anymore in the discovered devices, but the bridge will not go online with this name, so nothing is working. I’m wondering about that, because I thougt the name is free to choose.
Does anyone knows, what going wrong here? The items are working as expected, but I want to get rid of them in my inbox…
I’m running on OpenHAB 3.1.1 in a docker environment on a raspberry pi 4. But this should not matter.
I got the same thing happening to me, discovery of things that already are defined (I usually do all my things manual anyways).
One workaround is to tag the once you do not want to see again as ignored:
After a quick look into the code of the harmonyhub binding I say it needs to define a representation-property for the things to prevent them from being added to the inbox again.
@chrismast
I don’t want to simple ignore it using the UI. This has to be done everytime I Setup a new OH instance and this is what I don’t want to do by using only configuration files.
@cweitkamp
I read what you wrote and I also reviewed your link. But I absolutely don’t know what that means. I’ve never worked with such xml files. Could you please give me a bit more input how this works?
the developer of the binding needs to create the “xml” file defining the representation-property
the representation-property is a unique key to identify a thing uniquely e.g. host in case of a router
when the same key e.g. host=192.168.0.1 is found in you .things file it is clear that the autodiscover process found a duplicate in case of 192.168.0.1 is found to be a router thing
that means as long as it is not implemented in the binding itself you will see the duplicate in your inbox
I can offer my help and can try to implement it. But as I am neither owning not knowing much about Harmony one have to tell what a unique identifier can be for the Bridge (Hub) - the IP address? - and the devices - the id? - I have no clue.
// earlier versions required a name and used network discovery to find the hub and retrieve the host,
// this section is to not break that and also update older configurations to use the host configuration
// option instead of name
if (host == null || host.isBlank()) {
host = getThing().getProperties().get(HUB_PROPERTY_HOST);
if (host != null && !host.isBlank()) {
Configuration genericConfig = getConfig();
genericConfig.put(HUB_PROPERTY_HOST, host);
updateConfiguration(genericConfig);
} else {
logger.debug("host not configured");
updateStatus(ThingStatus.OFFLINE, ThingStatusDetail.CONFIGURATION_ERROR, "host not configured");
return;
}
}
So it looks like host will be available always. Only slight inconvenience might be users configuring a hostname when discovery would find an IP address.
Of course must be tested with both UI-based configuration and file-based configuration.
The device UUID will uniquely identify a HarmonyHub during discovery. When a device connects and establishes its first ping message it will retrieve this UUID value and save it as a property, so this will work for existing hub things that are either manually configured through a file, or auto discovered.
We are not using IP/HOST address as a representational property as an IP/HOST is likely to change for most users and are not a unique identifier for a hub.
