Z-Wave Switches vs Contacts, and the database

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@brianmichalk

Has it been discussed a way to transform one type of item to another

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ON/OFF vs OPEN/CLOSE & Contact item - Cannot get it to work

I have a few door contacts, and while one of them works, the others don’t. They are all defined as ‘Contact’ in the item file, but the one working reports OPEN/CLOSED on change while the non-working reports ON/OFF. I have read that a contact does not accept anything but OPEN/CLOSED, so I added a map file to do this; (door.map) OFF=CLOSED ON=OPEN NULL=Unknown … and then I changed the item into; Contact GF_Corridor_Door_Garage "Garagedörr [MAP(door.map):%s]" (GF_Corridor) …