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How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1753373]

Sun, 05 February 2017 07:55

Felix Lo

Messages: 8
Registered: October 2015

Junior Member

I am building my own binding and able to display all the discovered things in Paper UI inbox. It seems that in recent builds, there is a location field.

Anyone has any idea how to populate this field programitcally via custom binding? Following is the code that i use in my custom binding:

uid = new ThingUID(THING_TYPE_UID_TOPIC_THING, "device_" + strControllerId);
properties.put("topic", "device");
properties.put("deviceId", Integer.parseInt(strControllerId));
properties.put("location", strLocation);

discoveryResult = DiscoveryResultBuilder.create(uid).withProperties(properties)
.withRepresentationProperty("device_" + strControllerId)
.withLabel("Controller #: " + strControllerId + " Location: " + strLocation)
.withBridge(bridgeHandler.getThing().getUID()).build();
thingDiscovered(discoveryResult);

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Re: How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1753376 is a reply to message #1753373]

Sun, 05 February 2017 10:20

Markus Rathgeb

Messages: 105
Registered: August 2014

Senior Member

AFAIK there is no mechanism to propagate the location to the discovery result.
The location could be set on the thing later.

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Re: How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1754113 is a reply to message #1753376]

Tue, 14 February 2017 15:09

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

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Just like the label, the location field is meant to be set by the user, not by the binding.

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Re: How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1755190 is a reply to message #1754113]

Tue, 28 February 2017 20:43

David Bennett

Messages: 5
Registered: February 2017

Junior Member

Why is this though? In the nest case, for example, nest has a location concept on their devices. It would be good to be able to pull this in as part of the initial setup. Location in general seems to be a piece that openhab could expand on I think, as I suggested in my other post.

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Re: How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1755199 is a reply to message #1755190]

Wed, 01 March 2017 02:45

Tim Roberts

Messages: 29
Registered: September 2016

Junior Member

Just to add to this - I'd love to see this as well. For both Russound and Atlona - the zones are associated with locations as well. When I discover them - I could easily preset the location field as well.

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Re: How to Pre-populate "Location Field" for Thing in Paper UI's autodiscover Inbox [message #1755484 is a reply to message #1755199]

Fri, 03 March 2017 17:01

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

Senior Member

How would you merge the locations from 20 different bindings into one set? I'd expect the locations that come from external systems are not necessarily in sync with the ones you setup in ESH/OH.
But yes, I agree, it could be made available at least as a suggestion for the user.
The short answer why it isn't possible through a discovery result is that the location was added after the discovery mechanism had been designed Smile

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