Hello everyone, I’m really excited to share my journey with the OpenHAB community! I’ve been working on setting up a smart home system, and I’ve stumbled upon an interesting issue that I’m hoping you can help me with.
I’ve successfully configured the caldavCommand binding to sync my calendar events with OpenHAB. The logs show that the events are being detected correctly, which is fantastic. However, I’m facing a challenge where the switch I’ve set up isn’t responding as expected. Specifically, the switch named Fritz_Esszimmer_Switch isn’t turning ON or OFF when the calendar event triggers. There’s also no corresponding entry in the events.log, which is a bit puzzling.
Let me walk you through what I’ve done so far. I’ve created an .ics file with the necessary event details, including the start and end times, and the actions I want the switch to perform. Here’s a snippet of the relevant part of the file:
ics
DESCRIPTION:BEGIN:Fritz_Esszimmer_Switch:ON
END:Fritz_Esszimmer_Switch:OFF
From what I can see, the DESCRIPTION field looks correct, but I’m not entirely sure if there’s something missing or if the format needs adjustment. I’ve also checked the item configuration for Fritz_Esszimmer_Switch to ensure it’s set up properly, but I’m not spotting any issues there either.
I’m using the latest version of OpenHABianPi (2.1.0-1) with the caldavCommand v1 binding installed. Everything else seems to be running smoothly, which makes this problem all the more intriguing.
I’m really curious to know if others have encountered similar issues and how they resolved them. Any insights or suggestions would be invaluable! I’m especially interested in knowing if there are specific configurations or settings I might have overlooked that could be causing this behavior.
Thank you all in advance for your help and support. It’s amazing to be part of such a collaborative community! 