WizLighting Binding [4.0.0.0;4.3.0.0)

@palazzja, et al.

I have finally tracked this annoying issue down. There were significant change on the OpenHab core side–to the code that creates the displayState which is used by default as the label for these controls. Something has changed in that code that now requires the specification of a pattern in the State Description Metadata for the related Items. To correct the issue:

  • Open the Item that represents the Light Mode channel linkage
  • Click Add Metadata
  • Select State Description
  • Enter %s in the Pattern field
  • Click Save

You should now see your Light Modes again!

JACK POT! thank you so much for looking into this!

The WiZ binding was just merged into openHAB main. It will be available in the 4.3.0 snapshot build tomorrow, and the 4.3.0 final build later this month. Note that there have been several changes to channels to meet openHAB standards, so if you’ve been using the community binding, you’ll need to re-create your things. Thanks to @frejos for maintaining it so long. Any problems in the future can be reported as issues on openHAB’s GitHub. We’ll still be able to release a community version of the binding to address issues rapidly if necessary, but in general this should ease installation of the binding, and maintenance in general, since it’s part of the core build now, and core maintainers generally do a good job of keeping core bindings up to date when a core change is made.

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Great news… Thank you @frejos .Wiz owes you some royalties… i have over 45 Wiz bulbs on my Openhab because of your contributions… Now i have to re add them all over again but it will be worth it.

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Thanks @ccutrer for all the work getting the submission approved and included in the main releases. For those that didn’t follow along, @ccutrer had to make some significant changes to clean up and conform to OH UX standards. He also made several iterations in time to make the 4.3 release cut off.

Many thanks!

I am behind on upgrading and trying out the new version, but hopefully the re-adding and migration process isn’t too painful? Does anyone have any suggestions for making the process as smooth as possible? Any lessons learned? I too have a large 40+ Wiz device implementation.

Thanks

– frejos

NO easy way … I had to bite the bullet and go one by one. rule by rule lol…

Now that the binding is part of the official distribution in OH 4.3, should the marketplace version be unpublished or made available only untill OH version 4.2.x?

This thread is already set to only be visible in the marketplace for OH versions >= 4.0.0.0 < 4.3.0.0.