Tinker forge group "off" doesn't work

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Hi

I have given all my Hue Bulbs the Group “Lights” and created a group to turn them all off at once:

Group:Switch:OR(ON,OFF) Lights “All Lights [(%d)]”

In sitemap I have:
Frame label=“Quick Actions” {
Switch item=Lights mappings=[OFF=“All Off”]

That works perfectly fine.
I also have some Tinkerforge Remote Switch items and added the “Lights” Group to those with bulbs connected to:

Switch	rsA	""	<socket>	(Switching,Lights) 	{ tinkerforge="uid=r6x, subid=rsA" }
Switch	rsB	""	<socket>	(Switching,Lights) 	{ tinkerforge="uid=r6x, subid=rsB" }
Switch	rsC	""	<socket>	(Switching,Lights) 	{ tinkerforge="uid=r6x, subid=rsC" }

When I turn them on, they show as “on” in the GUI, so fine, so good, but when I use the “turn all Lights off” button, they go to “off” in the GUI, but are not really turned off.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks

Andre

2

Distance to the remote antenna too far?
I have that problem with one Tinkerforge remote device: it goes to on when switched on but doesn’t turn off when switched off.
When I move it closer to the 433 Mhz antenna it works fine …

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no, distance is not the problem, as I can turn on and off via openhab fine, just the “all Off” doesn’t seem to work

4

Hi Andre,

are the Remote Switch Bricklets work correctly if you switch them directly without using the group?

Regards,
Theo

5

Hi Theo

Yes, they do.

6

even when I don’t move, so I cannot be too far away (or the actor from the sensor)

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I will check the code the next weekend, may it’s a bug.

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Hi @theo
any updates on this?

Meanwhile it looks like that the Binding doesn’t even load.
I don’t see anything in openhab.log (actuator, etc).

I can connect (and switch the items) fine using brickv

I have the 1.8.0.SNAPSHOT Version running (Openhab and binding)

any ideas?

Thanks

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[quote=“andre1, post:8, topic:3007, full:true”]
Meanwhile it looks like that the Binding doesn’t even load.[/quote]

Works fine here, OH 1.71 on RPi2 with Jessie and binding 1.8.0. snapshot.

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Hi Andre,

there are no changes merged to the binding since 1.7.1. If it really doesn’t load it’s probably an issue of the “runtime-snapshot” or your configuration.
Sorry for the delay. I will check Remote Switch behavior today.

Regards,
Theo

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Pretty sure it is a race condition.

From Tinkerforge docs:

If the current state is busy, the Bricklet is currently sending a code to switch a socket. It will not accept any calls of switchSocket() until the state changes to ready.

I have no quick fix for that, I have to think about a good solution.
Could you please open an issue.

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@andre1 here is a fixed tinkerforgeBinding. Could you please test it and give me feedback.

Thanks in advance,
Theo

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Hi @theo

Nope, no changes. I don’t know, you have maybe overseen this:

From my log file, it looks like the tinker forge module doesn’t even get started when I start openhab. There is no entry at all. I can however run all commands using the brickv software.

Andre

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[quote=“andre1, post:13, topic:3007, full:true”]
From my log file, it looks like the tinker forge module doesn’t even get started when I start openhab.[/quote]

Because the Tinkerforge binding is running fine here on my setup you should look for a problem on your hardware or configuration.
Maybe you could post your openhab.cfg so we can take a look if it is only a misconfiguration …

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Hi @sihui
thanks for coming back to me on this.

here is my config snippet:

############################## Tinkerforge  Binding ###################################
#
# IP addresses / Hostnames  of the hosts running the brickd (optional port 
# separated by a colon, defaults to 4223) 
Tinkerforge:hosts=10.2.2.221

tinkerforge:rs1.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs1.type=bricklet_remote_switch
tinkerforge:rs1.typeADevices=rsA rsB rsC rsD rsE rsF

tinkerforge:rs_A.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs_A.subid=rsA
tinkerforge:rs_A.type=remote_switch_a
tinkerforge:rs_A.houseCode=21
tinkerforge:rs_A.receiverCode=1

tinkerforge:rs_B.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs_B.subid=rsB 
tinkerforge:rs_B.type=remote_switch_a
tinkerforge:rs_B.houseCode=21
tinkerforge:rs_B.receiverCode=2

tinkerforge:rs_C.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs_C.subid=rsC
tinkerforge:rs_C.type=remote_switch_a
tinkerforge:rs_C.houseCode=21
tinkerforge:rs_C.receiverCode=4

tinkerforge:rs_D.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs_D.subid=rsD
tinkerforge:rs_D.type=remote_switch_a
tinkerforge:rs_D.houseCode=21
tinkerforge:rs_D.receiverCode=8

tinkerforge:rs_E.uid=r6x
tinkerforge:rs_E.subid=rsE
tinkerforge:rs_E.type=remote_switch_a
tinkerforge:rs_E.houseCode=21
tinkerforge:rs_E.receiverCode=16

IP address is fine, as is the port. I can manage the bricks using brickv perfectly fine.

It’s weird that i don’t see anything related to tinker forge in the log file, not even a “loaded” on any error on loading it.

Andre

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Should be:

tinkerforge:hosts=10.2.2.221

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Edit: @theo already mentioned the upper/lower case problem in your config …

[quote=“andre1, post:15, topic:3007, full:true”]
It’s weird that i don’t see anything related to tinker forge in the log file, not even a “loaded” on any error on loading it.[/quote]

You should have something like
2015-11-21 20:05:19.360 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - Tinkerforge Refresh Service has been started
in your log.

[quote=“andre1, post:15, topic:3007, full:true”]
When I turn them on, they show as “on” in the GUI, so fine, so good, but
when I use the “turn all Lights off” button, they go to “off” in the
GUI, but are not really turned off.[/quote]

Although I don’t use the “all lights off” feature I’ve set this up to test it and I can confirm your perception with the 1.8.0 snapshot from cloudbees: I used two lights, one turns off, one does not turn off, in the GUI they all show up as off.

Then I used @theo 's fixed binding from his post above and I can confirm with that binding everything is running fine with “all lights off” through your group function: both lights turned off, both lights showed as off in the GUI.

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@sihui thanks for checking this.

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Yeah …

works again, including the “all off” switch

thanks a lot for all your help

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