Use "Image"-Item as Icon in sitemap

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Dear community,

I’m quite new to the whole openhab topic and i’m stuck on a very specific topic related to icons.

I am using the “Weather Underground” binding to receiver weather information, this binding has a channel which provide the current “weather icon” (sun,cloud,fog,etc.) as an image:

Image  WeatherIcon "Icon"                  {channel="weatherunderground:weather:NNN:current#icon"}
Number Temperature "Temperature [%.1f °C]" {channel="weatherunderground:weather:NNN:current#temperature"}

Now I would like to use that “Image” as an “Icon” in the sitemap like this, which does not work:

Text item=Temperature label="Temperature" icon=WeatherIcon

Is anyone aware of a a way to accomplish this?

Thank you,
HoLiuS

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This is not possible.

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OK, thanks. Then I will have to use dynamic icons based on a string containing the weather conditions.

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Shows how to download the icons and set up Rules to copy the icon returned by the icon field to a named dynamic icon which will then show up in your sitemap. I’ve run this way since writing that posting and it has worked great.

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I’m also experiencing odd values displayed by the original wunderground binding, I will try your approuch using the HTTP Binding

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One word of warning, I think Wunderground has changed their JSON a bit. I’m getting periodic errors when I need to parse the forecast JSON. You might need to make adjustments.

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Wondering if this has ever made it to a feature request. Unfortunately I am not that skilled to contribute. Is there a wish list somewhere? Greetings & THX

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Doubt it. You would need to spell out what “it” you mean.

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The question with what this thread was started: “Use “Image”-Item as Icon in sitemap” - Details in post #1 :slight_smile: