Ephemeris Binding

The Ephemeris Binding makes the bridge with Ephemeris core actions. It provides access to Ephemeris data via Items without requiring usage of a scripting language.

The binding will search your Jollyday event definition files in the sub folder /misc/ephemeris located in the configuration folder of openHAB (e.g. for a linux system : /etc/openhab/misc/ephemeris/)

Supported Things

The binding handles the following Things:

• default holiday data (holiday)
• custom holiday file (custom)
• daysets (dayset)
• weekend (weekend)

Discovery

The binding discovers weekend and holiday things.

Binding Configuration

There is no configuration at binding level.

Thing Configuration

custom Thing Configuration

Name	Type	Description	Default	Required	Advanced
fileName	text	Name of the XML file in the configuration folder	N/A	yes	no

The file has to use the syntax described here : https://www.openhab.org/docs/configuration/actions.html#custom-bank-holidays (opens new window)

dayset Thing Configuration

Name	Type	Description	Default	Required	Advanced
name	text	Name of the dayset used	N/A	yes	no

Channels

weekend Channels

Name	Type	Description
today	Switch	Set to ON if today is a weekend day, OFF in the other case
tomorrow	Switch	Set to ON if tomorrow is a weekend day, OFF in the other case

dayset Channels

Name	Type	Description
today	Switch	Set to ON if today is in the given dayset, OFF in the other case
tomorrow	Switch	Set to ON if tomorrow is in the given dayset, OFF in the other case

holiday Channels

Name	Type	Description
title-today	String	Name of today's holiday if any, NULL otherwise
holiday-today	Switch	Set to ON if today is a holiday
holiday-tomorrow	Switch	Set to ON if tomorrow is a holiday
next-title	String	Name of the next coming holiday
next-start	DateTime	Start date of the next coming holiday
days-remaining	Number:Time	Remaining days until next holiday

custom Channels

Name	Type	Description
title-today	String	Title of the currently present event
event-today	Switch	Set to ON if an event exists today
event-tomorrow	Switch	Set to ON if an event exists tomorrow
next-title	String	Title of the next starting event
next-start	DateTime	Start date of the next coming event
days-remaining	Number:Time	Remaining days until next event

Full Example

Thing Configuration

Thing ephemeris:holiday:local "Holidays"
Thing ephemeris:weekend:local "Week-end"
Thing ephemeris:custom:events "Event" [fileName="events.xml"]

Item Configuration

String         ToD_Event_Current          "Event Today"       <calendar>    (gEvents)                           {channel="ephemeris:custom:events:title-today"}
String         ToD_Event_Next          "Event Next"       <calendar>    (gEvents)                           {channel="ephemeris:custom:events:next-title"}
Number:Time    ToD_Event_Next_Left       "Event In"          <calendar>    (gEvents)       ["Measurement","Duration"]    {channel="ephemeris:custom:events:days-remaining", unit="day"}

Switch         ToD_Week_End_Current           "Week-End"                <calendar>    (gWeekEnd)                               {channel="ephemeris:weekend:local:today"}
Switch         ToD_Week_End_Tomorrow           "Week-End Tomorrow"         <calendar>    (gWeekEnd)                               {channel="ephemeris:weekend:local:tomorrow"}

String         ToD_Holiday_Current              "Holiday Today"       <calendar>    (gHoliday)                                 {channel="ephemeris:holiday:local:title-today"}
String         ToD_Holiday_Next              "Holiday Next"           <calendar>    (gHoliday)                                 {channel="ephemeris:holiday:local:next-title"}
Number:Time    ToD_Holiday_Next_Left           "Holiday In"              <calendar>    (gHoliday)            ["Measurement","Duration"]    {channel="ephemeris:holiday:local:days-remaining", unit="day"}

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