Weird MAP-transformation file failures

Setup, Configuration and Use Installation
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Hi all, I am setting up openHAB 3.4.2 on a RPi 4. But I experience some weirdness when using .map files in /etc/openhab/transform.

As I did for my Javascript transformations, I created a separate folder ‘mappings’ for mapping-files. But no matter how I defined the path (MAP:/mappings/test.map or MAP:mappings/test.map or MAP:/mappings/test.map etc.) it failed reading it:

Blockquote [WARN ] [t.generic.ChannelStateTransformation] - Executing the MAP-transformation failed: Could not find configuration ‘/mappings/test.map’ or failed to parse it.

(changing permissions/owner made no difference)

Then I moved the file one folder back to the ‘transform’ folder and use MAP:test.map, but still no success.

Created a new file test5.map and set MAP:test5.map does work allright.
But a new file with the name ‘LedEffectLabeltoESP.map’ fails…

So my questions are:

  1. Is it true that subfolders for map-transformation files are not allowed?
  2. Or how should it be set then?
  3. Are there restrictions for filenames in this particular setting?

Ciao!

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Subfolders are not supported.

Regarding file-naming: anything should be fine. Are you sure that you got the case right? Matching is case-sensitive.

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Thanks Jan for clearing!

(yes filename spelled/cased correctly, thought it was due to length or something, but will try some new better filenames again)

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Maybe it helps other users. My renaming/moving caused an owner/group change on the files. Having it reset to root/root (chown + chgrp) was the final solution.

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If you’re using openHABian, there’s a menu item in openhabian-config to reset file permissions.