Tried to set invalid state (StringType) on item, ignoring it

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Hi
When I checked the logs again today after a long time, I stumbled across the following errors, which appear every minute. I found several report with similar problems in the forum, but I could not derive a solution for my error. Incidentally, following metadata is stored for the item mentioned

value: " "
config:
pattern: “%1$tA, %1$td.%1$tm.%1tY %1$tH:%1$tM”

it was generated by default via the NTP binding. When I delete the metadata there is no change in error codes

2023-03-20 19:49:57.663 [ERROR] [org.openhab.core.items.GenericItem  ] - Tried to set invalid state 20.03.2023 19:49:58 (StringType) on item LokaleZeit of type DateTimeItem, ignoring it
2023-03-20 19:50:57.665 [ERROR] [org.openhab.core.items.GenericItem  ] - Tried to set invalid state 20.03.2023 19:50:58 (StringType) on item LokaleZeit of type DateTimeItem, ignoring it
2023-03-20 19:51:57.665 [ERROR] [org.openhab.core.items.GenericItem  ] - Tried to set invalid state 20.03.2023 19:51:58 (StringType) on item LokaleZeit of type DateTimeItem, ignoring it
2023-03-20 19:52:57.665 [ERROR] [org.openhab.core.items.GenericItem  ] - Tried to set invalid state 20.03.2023 19:52:58 (StringType) on item LokaleZeit of type DateTimeItem, ignoring it
2023-03-20 19:53:57.665 [ERROR] [org.openhab.core.items.GenericItem  ] - Tried to set invalid state 20.03.2023 19:53:58 (StringType) on item LokaleZeit of type DateTimeItem, ignoring it

Openhab 3.42

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Something is posting a date time string to the LokaleZeit Item and that is neither ISO8601 format nor the Java standard date time formatting which replaces the timezone offset with a bracketed timezone name.

The state description pattern is irrelevant here. You need to find out what’s sending this value to the DateTime Item and put in a transformation to convert it to a supported format.

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Thank you. The item receives the updates from the NTP binding. The pattern is from the binding documentation.

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Are you sure you’ve linked the right Channel to the right Item type? There is a string channel and a dateTime channel. The string channel must be linked to a String Item. The date time channel must be linked to a DateTime Item. You can’t mix and match. The type of the channel and Item must match.

Note, that state description pattern is only valid for a DateTime Item.

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The config of the item should be correct in my opinion.

grafik
grafik709×246 3.99 KB

The correct config is described here: link
One channel is a string type

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The error is complaining about an Item called LocaleZeit. This screen shot is for LocalZeit_String. Indeed this Item appears to be correct, assuming it’s linked to the string channel of the Thing. But it’s irrelevant. That’s not the Item it’s complaining about.

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It seems like that was it. The correct item was defined as a group. Thanks