Understanding / Avoiding ERE (Experimental Rule Engine)

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Because ERE does not seem to have good documentation

Forgot to search? :

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 1 of : Introduction

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB EDIT: This is getting too long for one posting. I’ve split it up (thanks @ysc’s write-up for HABot for giving me the idea). This is a series of postings to start writing and gathering what we know works and what doesn’t yet work in the Rul…

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 2 of : Installation

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB Installation In PaperUI select “Add-ons” and the “MISC” tab. Install “Rule Engine (Experimental)” Once installed you should see a new Rules option on the left panel in PaperUI. [image] NOTE: Yes I know the image is fuzzy, I’ll take new…

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 3 of : Your First Rule

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB Your First Rule Prerequisites Create a Switch Item named Test. We will use this to trigger our Rule. Give the Item a label because the Items are listed alphabetically by label. If you skip the label, the Item ends up at the bottom of the l…

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 4 of : Writing Scripts

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB Writing Scripts As you can see a lot can be accomplished in the NGRE without writing scripts at all. Much more than is possible with just Items. However at some point writing a script will be required. We know that the scripts entered into …

Experimental Next-Gen Rules Engine Documentation 5 of : Actions

This tutorial post is very out of date and ultimately did not make it into the official docs. Do not use this except for historic purposes. See the Getting Started Tutorial sections on rules for how to get started with rules. Rules - Introduction | openHAB Other Functions and Actions OH supports a number of functions which allow one to cause something to occur in a script such as sending an email or scheduling something to occur at a later date. There are a number of built in functions and a …