Time Based State Machine [3.2.0;3.4.9]

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@bdm

I have tried adding .state to it as well, resulting in an error that state is not a member of java.time.ZonedDateTime.

.state before what?

CurrentDT is indeed a ZonedDateTime and it has no .state.

DefaultDay is a DateTimeItem and that is not a ZonedDateTime and cannot be used in the call to isBefore(). DefaultDay does have a .state but that’s a DateTimeType, not a ZonedDateTime so you still cannot use that in the call to isBefore(). You need to get the ZonedDateTime from that.

(DefaultDay.state as DateTimeType).zonedDateTime

See DateTime Conversion (openHAB 3.x) (
note that article remains unchanged for OH 4).

@bdm

I saw javascript examples for now.toLocalDateTime(), but can’t see any DSL examples of this - would this work?

All of this works very differently in JS. There is a utility called time.toZDT() which handles converting just about anything that makes sense into a ZonedDateTime.

But no, using now.toLocalDateTime() isn’t going to change anything because a LocalDateTime doesn’t have a .state either.

@bdm

Is there a better implementation for my circumstance? Is there something else I am missing?

Yes, see above and the link above.