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Dynamic Channel Groups? [message #1753531]

Tue, 07 February 2017 14:46

Tim Roberts

Messages: 29
Registered: September 2016

Junior Member

I've looked around in the code and the forum but it doesn't seem very easy to dynamically create channel groups?

Looks like the closest I can come is by overriding getThingTypeByUID on BaseThingHandlerFactory and pass it the dynamically discovered channel groups? Doesn't appear that the ThingHandler can do this correct?

Use case - sony's newest API (which is really product agnostic) let's me dynamically discover hardware on the underlying device. Example: for audio - I may find 'speakers' and/or 'headphones' and/or 'hdmi', etc based on what the device supports. I'd like to create a channel group type that implements the basic audio channels and then dynamically create channel groups (to that type) based on what the API tells me the device supports. The same applies to other attributes (output ports, network ports, etc).

Ouch - was just looking at how homematic binding did it (basically implementing a bunch of providers) Hopefully there is an easier way...

[Updated on: Tue, 07 February 2017 16:31]

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Re: Dynamic Channel Groups? [message #1754003 is a reply to message #1753531]

Mon, 13 February 2017 18:08

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

Senior Member

Hi Tim,

I guess https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/issues/1118 pretty much summarizes what you ask for, right?
So as a short answer: No, currently not possible unless you dynamically define Thing types. But identified as something to improve.

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