Hello Community, I use homeatic door contacts on my doors and windows for my alarm system. I built a group item for all the contacts Group:Contact door_lock_alarm_sensors My problem is that I want to react to each trigger from the door and windows contacts and not only to the aggregated group sta…

Thanks for your help but I do not understand how to use the changed state of the contacts in a rule. All examples are similar like this: when Item vGarageOpener1 changed or Item vGarageOpener2 changed or Item vFrontDoor changed or Item vBackDoor changed or Item vGarageDoor chang…

Sure you wan’t such a feature everyone does. But unfortunately it is not yet in your openhab but available at the snapshot. Either wait till it comes with the next stable release or update to snapshot. [image] Features for Rules that work with Groups Tutorials & Examples …

[image] un1k: when Item <groupname> one of the groupitems changed from CLOSED to OPEN at present you can only trigger: when Item <groupname> received update so this indicates, that “some item” within the group changed - but not necessarily the group itself. You can then do something like …

I run into the same problem and made a not 100% working solution and needs more testing: Here what I’ve done, sorry for some german comments in the rules: Manage all with groups and group memberships. // all active items to monitor/controll Group:Number:SUM gContactStatus "gCo…

thanks for your answer, I will try your solution soon. I am from germany too, so your comments are welcome!

If an example for switches is needed, I have one too, is a little bit more complex.

:slight_smile: I don’t understand your example. What do you mean with the example for switches?

@un1k This example works only for contact items not for switch items or other items. Some modifications are needed to use for switches. So if needed I can post.