@TimO The MQTT binding might be helpful. It is possible to implement the following behaviour with MQTT when autoupdate is set to false:

When you touch a switch, the defined message is published to an MQTT topic, but the button status remains unchanged. Then, for example, the device processes the message and publishes a status message which then causes the update to the visible status of the button.

The same can be implemented with shutters. When you push the button to move the shutters up, with autoupdate=true the icon is immediately set to reflect 0%. With autoupdate=false, you can show the current position by updating the position while it is in motion.

I can't do this with the MySensors binding yet because pushing a button always updates the status automatically.

@TimO Can you say anything regarding the autoupdate=false option yet? It would be useful to separate the UI user action from the status displayed by the UI. Rollershutters for example can show the percentage of how much the shutters are down. This conflicts with the autoupdate=true behaviour which sets the value to 0 as soon as the UP button is pushed.

@TimO It seems the binding does not support autoupdate="false" yet. Can you confirm this and do you consider adding this option? I could use the MQTT binding to get what I want (for example feedback of rollershutter position while moving based on the value sent by the sensor and not based on the command sent via the UI), but I don't want to move away from the MySensors binding.

@andreacioni

Here is the output generated after restarting the TimeAwareSensor sketch from the MySensors examples.

You can see that the I_TIME (3;0;1) message is received by the gateway several times, but it never sends a response to the node.

Do you need anything else?

12:20:59.677 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;Starting gateway (RNNGA-, 2.0.0-beta)
12:20:59.683 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;Radio init successful.
12:20:59.683 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
12:20:59.683 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;Init complete, id=0, parent=0, distance=0
12:20:59.683 [INFO ] [me.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'mysensors:bridge-ser:2dc775c4' changed from INITIALIZING to ONLINE
12:20:59.776 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsWriter] - Sending to MySensors: 0;0;3;0;2;
12:20:59.782 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;2;2.0.0-beta
12:20:59.782 [DEBUG] [s.internal.MySensorsBridgeConnection] - Good,Gateway is up and running! (Ver:2.0.0-beta)
12:21:01.067 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=1,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
12:21:01.071 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;1;
12:21:01.076 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=15,pt=0,l=2,sg=0:

12:21:01.119 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;send: 0-0-167-167 s=255,c=3,t=15,pt=0,l=2,sg=0,st=fail:

12:21:01.125 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=0,t=17,pt=0,l=10,sg=0:2.0.0-beta
12:21:01.128 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;0;0;17;2.0.0-beta
12:21:01.131 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0
12:21:01.134 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;6;0
12:21:03.135 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=5,sg=0:Clock
12:21:03.138 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;11;Clock
12:21:03.144 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,sg=0:1.0
12:21:03.146 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;12;1.0
12:21:11.059 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=1,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
12:21:11.061 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;1;
12:21:21.061 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=1,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
12:21:21.063 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 167;255;3;0;1;
12:21:31.063 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;9;read: 167-167-0 s=255,c=3,t=1,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:

@TimO

Thanks for your work! It's really nice to see the progress!

I have tried the TimeAwareSensor and the MockMySensors examples. The I_TIME message is sent by the node, obviously received by the gateway, but there the gateway is not sending anything in response. Are you sure your code for sending a time response is already active?

The binding doesn't seem to handle the "requestTime" function yet. Time-aware sensors would be able to handle temporary OpenHAB outages by executing some scheduled actions autonomously, which I could use in the window cover controllers I'm developing.