Platform information: Hardware: amd64 / 4 cores / 8G RAM OS: Manjaro Java Runtime Environment: Oracle 11.0.18 openHAB version: 3.4.2 Issue of the topic: I’m experimenting moving from the Zigbee binding to “zigbee2mqtt + home assistant discovery” configuration because most of the sensors I have …

[image] obones: Is there a way to “transform” a switch into a “contact” in such a way that it really is considered a contact by everything else? I can’t answer this, but if you don’t find a direct solution then you could use proxy contact items and a rule that triggers when a member of a grou…

The way I currently do it is manually set up my zigbee2mqtt stuff manually using mqtt instead of using the homeassistant discovery. This gives me full control over what type I want for everything. It does require extra work, but I use my items/things generator which utilised a template for each devi…

[image] jimtng: It does require extra work, but I use my items/things generator which utilised a template for each device type That’s what I have in mind should I can’t find a more “direct” solution, but I did envision a generator for this. Is this generator available somewhere?

[image] obones: Is this generator available somewhere? [image] Another Things and Items file Generator Items & Sitemaps What is it? Generate .things and .items files based on device templates to eliminate repetitive copy/pasting. Very easy to change / a…

Transform a channel from Switch to Contact

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners

jimtng (jimtng) March 28, 2023, 9:00pm 5

BTW I don’t manually run this generator - with the help of a rule that autoloads changes, every time I changed my “master” devices.yaml file, it autogenerates the .things and .items files for me.