No idea about your manual things config, I don’t use that complicated stuff 
@Marfi, did you try using something like this?
on=“true”, off=“false”
the documentation reads as on/open and off/closed are synonymous.
It’s the same as the configuration via gui, it’s just you spare plenty of time if you have to configure ten of those contacts/switches. Just the first is a bit more difficult, because of the missing documentation. Afterwards it’s just copy, paste, search & replace. You just need to adjust the thingname and the topic.
I set the friendlyname to the thingname, so effectively i just need to replace one string for each new thing. 
This is what I use:
Type contact : contact "Contact" [ stateTopic="zigbee/frontdoor-contact/contact", on="false", off="true" ]
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Now it is working! I guess I tried that on/off instead of open/closed before because I also read that on the documentation. But I had to restart the openHab-Service in order for the changes to take effect. 
Just editing the thing-file was not enough 
Thanks to everybody and merry christmas!
I know, it is even more convenient to have an automated JsonDB backup.
This is (for me) much more convenient than to have to do this all via text files.
Hi ,
have someone a solution for RGB Colors ?
I have seen that there is an option option
But when I sent from the transform the ligth goes to OFF
return “255,0,0,255”;
zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/set 0,255,0
zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/state OFF
zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/brightness 0
zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/color-x 0.1652
zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/color-y 0.7846
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Hi, thanks for sharing this discovery.
I made it works with an Aqara white bulb (ZNLDP12LM) and a Mijia switch (WXKG01LM), here is my config files and a simple rule if it can help.
test.things :
Bridge mqtt:broker:broker "MQTT Broker" [ host="127.0.0.1", clientid="OpenHab" ]
{
Thing topic 0x00158d0002c67ab4 "Bulb_aquara"
{
Channels:
Type switch : state "state" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/state", commandTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/set/state", on="ON", off="OFF" ]
Type dimmer : brightness "brightness" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/brightness", commandTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/set/brightness", min=0, max=255, step=1 ]
Type dimmer : color_temp "color_temp" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/color_temp", commandTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/set/color_temp", min=150, max=500, step=1 ]
Type number : linkquality "linkquality" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d0002c67ab4/linkquality" ]
}
Thing topic 0x00158d00015aa9b5 "Switch_mijia"
{
Channels:
Type string : click "click" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d00015aa9b5/click" ]
Type number : voltage "voltage" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d00015aa9b5/voltage" ]
Type number : battery "battery" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d00015aa9b5/battery" ]
Type number : linkquality "linkquality" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x00158d00015aa9b5/linkquality" ]
}
}
test.items :
Group gAll
Switch Bulb_aquara_state "Bulb [%s]" <light> (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d0002c67ab4:state"}
Dimmer Bulb_aquara_brightness "Bulb brightness [%d]" (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d0002c67ab4:brightness"}
Dimmer Bulb_aquara_color_temp "Bulb color_temp [%d]" (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d0002c67ab4:color_temp"}
Number Bulb_aquara_linkquality "Bulb linkquality [%d]" (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d0002c67ab4:linkquality"}
String Switch_mijia_click "Button [%s]" <button> (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d00015aa9b5:click"}
Number Switch_mijia_voltage "Button Volt [%d mV]" (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d00015aa9b5:voltage"}
Number Switch_mijia_battery "Button bat [%.1f %%]" <battery> (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d00015aa9b5:battery"}
Number Switch_mijia_linkquality "Button linkquality [%d]" (gAll) {channel="mqtt:topic:broker:0x00158d00015aa9b5:linkquality"}
test.rules :
rule "Turn on light from button"
when
Item Switch_mijia_click received update single
then
logInfo("broker trigger debug", "triggered single clic")
sendCommand(Bulb_aquara_state, OFF)
end
rule "Turn off light from button"
when
Item Switch_mijia_click received update double
then
logInfo("broker trigger debug", "triggered double clic")
sendCommand(Bulb_aquara_state, ON)
end
I’m not satisfied with the way I managed brightness and color_temp, if someone has a better way…
@the.neon I’ll try with a colored bulb soon (I have a spare Hue), but reading the code, it looks like the payload is only RGB value subPayload = [subPayload.r, subPayload.g, subPayload.b]; so you should send something like 100,0,102 and not 255,0,0,255 ?
Not sure but in doubt I will also try something like this zigbee2mqtt/0x00124b001ba703f8/set/state/color/hex #547CFF
An other question is how can we change the transition time (see transition here https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt.io/blob/351f24ce4a77ceae7a0fc22c436fa710a64e4b1e/docs/information/mqtt_topics_and_message_structure.md#zigbee2mqttfriendly_nameset) as the payload is not a JSON anymore…
Hi,
details about color are here : https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman-converters/blob/edd4ce980975e76792b153c1df8d4e2c2b04e0e4/converters/toZigbee.js#L376 (also this Pull Request https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/pull/2441).
That mean that we can set the color with an MQTT command like :
zigbee2mqtt/0x0017880102320dd8/set/color #FF0000 because of the condition || (typeof value === 'string' && value.startsWith('#')))
But we can’t do zigbee2mqtt/0x0017880102320dd8/set/color 100,100,100 because the condition require a Property (a JSON key).
As OpenHAB can only send colorRGB and colorHUE values, for now, there is no solution to control the color of a bulb without ugly transformation.
I would love to write a Pull Request to z2m but there is no easy way to distinguish RGB (255,255,255) values from HSB one (360,100,100).
Other solution would be to found a simple way to send color as Hex (#FF0000) from OpenHAB.
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Yeah I’ve just been struggling with how to set the colour of a Philips Hue RGB bulb… I’m keen to see if anyone has any smart ideas…
Nobody knows the structure of color bulbs in zigbee2mqtt with attribute output enabled? So nobody connected a color bulb yet?
It works multiple ways, I think RGB is the easiest:
zigbee2mqtt/item/set/color with the value in RGB hex (so #FF0000 will be full red). I’m currently trying to figure out how to make it work with the colorpicker because it works from mqtt but the colorpicker wants to send these hue & saturation values that I don’t fully understant.
It also works with JSON providing the values in this format
{r:“255”,g:“0”,b:“0”}
Funny, no matter what combination I use: I have Closed when I should have OPEN and OPEN when I should have CLOSED.
the new version zigbee2mqtt 1.9.0 supports: "color values in HSB/HSV/HSL notation"
// Hue, saturation, brightness (in HSB space)
"hsb": "360,100,100"
At the moment it seems you can not set HSB/HSV/HUE value directly. You still have to use JSON with surrounding ‘color’ tag. So it’s now working with a small formatting, but without ugly transformation.
here is the working configuration for my Osram RGBW bulb:
.things
Thing topic osramrgbbulb "osramrgbbulb" {
Channels:
Type switch : power "Power" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x7cb03eaa00ada0df/state", commandTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x7cb03eaa00ada0df/set/", on="ON", off="OFF" ]
Type string : color "Color" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/0x7cb03eaa00ada0df/color-hsb", commandTopic="zigbee2mqtt/0x7cb03eaa00ada0df/set" , formatBeforePublish="{\"color\":{\"hsb\": \"%s\"}}" ]
}
.items
String WZ_OSRAM_Bulb_Color "WZ_OSRAM_Bulb_Color" <light> { channel="mqtt:topic:mosquitton:osramrgbbulb:color"}
.sitemap
Colorpicker item=WZ_OSRAM_Bulb_Color
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The new version 1.9.0 now also supports output of payloads as JSON and plain attributes with the following option in configuration.yaml:
experimental:
# Optional: MQTT output type: json, attribute or json_and_attribute (default: shown below)
# Examples when 'state' of a device is published
# json: topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/my_bulb' payload '{"state": "ON"}'
# attribute: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/my_bulb/state' payload 'ON"
# json_and_attribute: both json and attribute (see above)
output: 'json'
There is a error in the documentation, the option is called “attribute_and_json” and works as expected, payload is transmitted in both flavours.
That will help me with migrating from MQTT 1 to MQTT 2.x as well as from JSON to plain attributes.
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How i can define Trigger type channel?
I try to use:
Type trigger : action "action" [ stateTopic = "zigbee2mqtt/xiaomi_cube/action"]
but i have an error:
20:34:27.098 [ERROR] [l.thing.internal.GenericThingProvider] - Channel type mqtt:trigger could not be resolved.
I need to use it in rules like this:
when
Channel "mqtt:topic:be6e02f3:Cube:action" triggered
then
Have a look at the Ikea remote. This has an action channel as well. This is a simple string channel, the string is related to the type of action.
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Thank you very much, @job. Please share your rule example how catch events from action channel? What is event to catch action? item update or changed?
i try this, but it does not work-(
when
Channel "mqtt:topic:be6e02f3:Cube:action" triggered
then