Online/Offline channel or Thing status

[rjduraocosta]

Hello @Skinah ,

Following my post in https://community.openhab.org/t/wled-a-binding-for-controlling-led-strips-and-strings-from-an-opensource-esp8266-project/87286/75

When I disconnect my Wled board the offline status is correctly published to the Mqtt broker in the status topic, however the Thing in Openhab stays online.

Could there be a channel added where the status topic from wled is mirrored as a LWT topic? Or put the Wled String Thing Offline?

If you need someone to do a quick test run with any update please let me know.

Thank you for your work.

[rjduraocosta]

Hello @Skinah,

I created a pull request proposal #11

Thanks.

[rjduraocosta]

Hello @Skinah,

I created a pull request proposal #11 .

Thanks.

[Skinah]

I’m pretty sure it would not be accepted to be merged to the main openhab project if it was a channel. The standard way is to use the thing status as all other bindings and developer guidelines have gone that way from memory.

[Skinah]

It is looking pretty certain that this binding will need to be fully rewritten to be HTTP based before it is merged

[rjduraocosta]

Hello @Skinah ,

Thanks for your input. I already closed #11 .

[Skinah]

closing as this now should go on and offline as it is now http API based.