What's the reason for scripts? When do you use scripts?

[job (Joachim Boeddeker)]

After some time, i discovered some ideas:

A simple scene management: finally a good use of scripts

This is a simple concept for scene management. I really like it for its simplicity. The following is needed: 1 item 1 rule plenty of scripts: one per scene (openHAB flavor, no shell scripts) 1 sitemap The main concept is simple. Each script defines a special scene. With a specialized mapping in the sitemap you can call the script you like. Prior to that concept, i had several SwitchITems which each triggered a special rule. This bunch of SwitchItems could be removed. The item: String call…

Configurable buttons/switches: another good use of scripts

I have a number of Buttons around my house to trigger functions. But which functions at which locations? That’s so difficult to plan apart from the obvious “turn the local light on”. The scene management provided me the idea how to simplify this. I use the following keys/buttons, depending on location: If the key is located near wall switches i use the homematic ones: HM-PB-2-WM55. For buttons located e.g. under the table or somewhere else i use the Xiaomi Aqara switches. Both switche…

A simplified sunrise light with scripts and no sleep

After i discovered the magic of scripts, i translated several functions of my smarthome to scripts. Before using scripts, this sunrise was implemented as a complex lambda with 5 parameters. Ugly. Now it is not reusable anymore, but you can just copy it and adjust the light bulb items. Simplified by large. This strategy can be reused wherever you need to loop over a longer duration and do not want to use Thread.sleep. With the second script as the loop body you omit the writing of a complex Cre…