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Documentation: Fix wrong example in channel definition (#5085)
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For light bulbs with color support we have a color channel that also supports dimming so a separate dimmer channel is not needed. If the bulb also supports changing the color temperature this would be an example for a separate channel.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Triller <stefan.triller@telekom.de>
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triller-telekom authored and kaikreuzer committed Feb 15, 2018
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Things provide "channels", which represent the different functions the thing provides.
Where the thing is the physical entity or source of information, the channel is a concrete function from this thing.
A physical light bulb might have a dimmer channel and a color channel, both providing functionality of the one light bulb thing to the system.
A physical light bulb might have a color temperature channel and a color channel, both providing functionality of the one light bulb thing to the system.
For sources of information the thing might be the local weather with information from a web service with different channels like temperature, pressure and humidity.

Channels are linked to items, where such links are the glue between the virtual and the physical layer.
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