Things

Things can be access using the things method and subsequent operations on that methods.

Method	Description
things	Return all things as a Ruby Set
[]	Get a specific thing by name or ThingUID object
enumerable methods	All methods here

things.each { |thing| logger.info("Thing: #{thing.uid}")}
logger.info("Thing: #{things['astro:sun:home'].uid}")
homie_things = things.select { |t| t.thing_type_uid == "mqtt:homie300" }
zwave_things = things.select { |t| t.binding_id == "zwave" }
homeseer_dimmers = zwave_things.select { |t| t.thing_type_uid.id == "homeseer_hswd200_00_000" }
things['zwave:device:512:node90'].uid.bridge_ids => ["512"]
things['mqtt:topic:4'].uid.bridge_ids => []

Thing objects

The standard JRuby alternate names and bean convention applies, such that getUID becomes uid.

Actions are available via thing objects. For more details see Actions

Thing status is available through status method, which returns one of the values from ThingStatus. Boolean methods are available based on this.

Method	Description
`channels`	Returns an array of channels, but also supports indexing by channel name.
`unitialized?`	Returns true if the status is `UNINITIALIZED`
`initializing?`	Returns true if the status is `INITIALIZING`
`unknown?`	Returns true if the status is `UNKNOWN`
`online?`	Returns true if the status is `ONLINE`
`offline?`	Returns true if the status is `OFFLINE`
`removing?`	Returns true if the status is `REMOVING`
`removed?`	Returns true if the status is `REMOVED`

thing = things['chromecast:audiogroup:dd9f8622-eee-4eaf-b33f-cdcdcdeee001121']
logger.info("Audiogroup Status: #{thing&.status}")
logger.info("Audiogroup Online? #{thing&.online?}")
logger.info("Channel ids: #{thing.channels.map(&:uid)}")
logger.info("Items linked to volume channel: #{thing.channels['volume']&.items&.map(&:name)&.join(', ')}")
logger.info("Item linked to volume channel: #{thing.channels['volume']&.item&.name}")