Multiple nesting in OpenHAB sitemap

[kisa]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up multiple nested levels in my openhab setup. I can't find any explanations that go beyond a single nest, it is possible to have more than one deep?

I'm specifically trying to have a top level that says "Temperatures", once you click on that, you are shown temperatures for 10 different locations. That I can do.

From here I'd want to be able to click on the individual temperatures and be taken to a page that shows the battery level and RSSI for that temperature node. That I can't do.

I'd also like it for the Temperatures to say turn red if either the rssi or voltage drop to an unacceptable level.

What I have so far:-

My.sitemap

sitemap My label="My House"
{
Group item=Nodes label="Temperatures" icon="temperature"
Switch item=Act_Node50 label="Node50_Output"
}
}

My.items

//first half

Group Nodes (Network)

Number Temperature_Node50 "Temperature_Node50 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node51 "Temperature_Node51 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node51/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node52 "Temperature_Node52 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node52/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node53 "Temperature_Node53 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node53/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node54 "Temperature_Node54 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node54/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node55 "Temperature_Node55 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node55/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node56 "Temperature_Node56 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node56/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node57 "Temperature_Node57 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node57/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node58 "Temperature_Node58 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node58/dev50:state:default]"}
Number Temperature_Node59 "Temperature_Node59 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node59/dev50:state:default]"}

// second half
String Node50Rssi "Node50 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node50) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node50Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node50) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node51 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node51) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node51/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node51Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node51) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node52 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node52) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node52/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node52Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node52) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node53 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node53) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node53/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node53Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node53) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node54 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node54) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node54/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node54Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node54) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node55 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node55) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node55/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node55Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node55) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node56 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node56) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node56/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node56Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node56) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node57 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node57) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node57/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node57Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node57) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node58 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node58) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node58/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node58Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node58) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}
String Node50Rssi "Node59 RSSI [%s db]" <network> (Node59) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node59/dev02:state:default]", expire="3m,Offline?" }
Number Node50Voltage "Node59Voltage [%.2f Vdd]" <battery> (Node59) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev04:state:default]"}

I only added the second half to see if it would work, I didn't have any luck. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to use frames into the sitemap or something like that.

[greginkansas]

You can use this for colors

Text item=node2temperature valuecolor=[node2temperature>90="red", >70="green", >60="blue", >50="black", >40="teal", >35="black", >30="yellow", >20="orange"] {

[greginkansas]

As for the nesting of items this is done in the sitemaps.
Frames inside of frames

Text item=node2temperature valuecolor=[node2temperature>90="red", >70="green", >60="blue", >50="black", >40="teal", >35="black", >30="yellow", >20="orange"] {
Text item=node2UPtime
Text item=node2updatetime
Text item=node2RefreshTime icon="clock"
Text item=node2RSSI
Text item=node2temperature valuecolor=[node2temperature>90="red", >70="green", >60="blue", >50="black", >40="teal", >35="black", >30="yellow", >20="orange"] {
Frame {
Chart item=node2temperature period=d service="rrd4j" refresh=15000
}
}
Text item=node2humidity {
Frame {
Chart item=node2humidity period=d service="rrd4j" refresh=15000
}
}
Text item=node2Light_intensity icon="sun" {
Frame label="All Light levels" {
Chart item=Light_Levels icon="sun" period=d service="rrd4j" refresh=15000
}
}
Text item=node2MQ2 valuecolor=[node2MQ2>90="red", >60="blue"] {
Frame {
Switch item=node2MQ2 label="MQ2 Level" mappings=[0="Hour", 1="Day", 2="Week", 3="4 HRS"]
Chart item=node2MQ2 period=h service="rrd4j" refresh=15000 visibility=[node2MQ2==0]
Chart item=node2MQ2 period=D service="rrd4j" refresh=30000 visibility=[node2MQ2==1]
Chart item=node2MQ2 period=W service="rrd4j" refresh=30000 visibility=[node2MQ2==2]
Chart item=node2MQ2 period=4h service="rrd4j" refresh=30000 visibility=[node2MQ2==3]
}
}
Switch item=node2motion label="Shop Motion" icon="fire"
Switch item=Shop_room_occupancy
Text item=node2_AVG_motion
}

[papa]

Yes, kisa, as greg said (thanks, greg), you can nest sitemap frames inside of another frame & you can uses various "elements" like text color to manipulate how data displays on a User Interface via a sitemap.

This official documentation on sitemaps is helpful. This section describes a bare sitemap. As it says, a sitemap's contents (in frames) fit between the left & right curly brackets { } shown in the bare sitemap.

Let's apply this ^^ to your sitemap (My.sitemap):  (blue text is notes & can NOT be in the sitemap)

sitemap My label="My House"                                < should be OK since 2 cases of My in green match.
{                                                                                <  sitemap's outer left curly bracket
Group item=Nodes label="Temperatures" icon="temperature"  <  If rest of sitemap is OK, this line should work.

Switch item=Act_Node50 label="Node50_Output"                  <  error, line needs to be in a frame.
}                                                                            < error, curly brackets must be a left / right matching pair
}                                                                                < sitemap's outer right curly bracket

    I believe this would be a corrected version of your My.sitemap above:

sitemap My label="My House"
{
   Group item=Nodes label="Temperatures" icon="temperature"  < Indents are cosmetic to help show the groupings.

   Frame {                                                                                    < papa added the needed start of the frame

        Switch item=Act_Node50 label="Node50_Output"
             }
}

----------------------------------------------------------------

Group item=Nodes label="Temperatures" icon="temperature"

      ^^ This line works a little differently from a frame.  On the User Interface, it displays a temperature icon plus "Temperatures"  When you click on Temperatures it should open a new web page that displays the data from all items that defined the group property as (Nodes) like this one:

Number Temperature_Node50 "Temperature_Node50 [%.1f C]" <temperature> (Nodes) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev50:state:default]"}

    ----------------------------------------------

Switch item=Act_Node50 label="Node50_Output"

    ^^ According to the items you listed above, this sitemap line won't do much.

                  To work this line needs an item like ...

Switch Act_Node50 { mqtt="<[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/nb/node50/dev16:state:default::]", mqtt=">[mosquitto:home/rfm_gw/sb/node50/dev16:command:*:default]" }

   With the just above sitemap line & item line, the sitemap should display a virtual switch which when clicked should toggle the node 50's device 16 pin on & off.

   

[papa]

kisa: "I'd want to be able to click on the individual temperatures and be taken to a page that shows the battery level and RSSI for that temperature node."

See my weather _Metric.sitemap file in this post. (Using this sitemap presupposes other configurations in the rest of the post's thread.)

In a browser tab, enter http://localhost:8080/basicui/app?sitemap=weather_Metric At first, it should display "Weather ...Outdoor Temp ..." You can click "Outdoor Temp" because it is a link to open a new page of related information.

kisa, I believe you could use ^^ this approach to get what you want.

[kisa]

Excellent, thank you very much for the detailed explanations.