Binding for input devices

[Jonas Sorgalla]

Hello everyone,

I am playing around with OH2 for a couple of days and by now I am very impressed with the elegance and simplicity of OH2 compared to OH1 and in general. To learn the basics I implemented two bindings for output devices which our students built.

Now I would like to implement a binding for an input device which generates lots of sensor data and sends them via UDP. My initial plan was to create a new DatagramSocket Thread, receive the data, do some mathematical magic and based on that send commands to the eventbus. Well and here is my problem: How to publish commands to the bus? In OH1 we had the concept of In, Out and InOut Bindings – how did this translate to OH2?

Hopefully the question is not to dumb and someone has a nice example :)

 

Jonas Sorgalla

University of Applied Science Dortmund

[Kai Kreuzer]

Hi Jonas,

 How to publish commands to the bus? In OH1 we had the concept of In, Out and InOut Bindings – how did this translate to OH2?

Actually, this is still very similar. Besides item state updates, you can also post commands see https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/blob/master/bundles/core/org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing/src/main/java/org/eclipse/smarthome/core/thing/binding/BaseThingHandler.java#L261

Does this answer your question?

Best regards,

Kai

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[Jonas Sorgalla]

Indeed it does!
But now I'm a little bit embarrassed that I was not able to find the solution myself ;)

Thx Kai!