Mark Herwege

> I am going through the javadocs again. Many of them need updates or clarifications. I am working on that and will come back with refinements on them. Done, and...

> If the old `evolutionRate()` were to remain, perhaps with a deprecation warning like `historicState`, then it wouldn't break any jruby scripts, and perhaps also other scripting languages? Done that...

> It makes sense to me to consider the pattern like it is done in sitemap UIs, it allows controlling the format of value passed to the transformation. I mean...

Is there still a difference if https://github.com/openhab/openhab-core/pull/4169 would be applied? I still think the format() method for Quantity Time produces the wrong result today, leading to this difference. It should...

> But yes format("%s") has probably to be updated for time duration to not return a datetime. This is probably something to change in a separate PR. Maybe, it is...

> So with the change I propose to implement + your change, Main UI and Basic UI will pass the same value to the transformation (my change that will call...

> 3\. What about when a reply could match multiple bindings, do we do the scan multiple times and then use a different filter, or can they be combined? Doorbird...

@holgerfriedrich Looking at this, and the ipcamera request, I think an alternative (non-hex) request should be supported.

@mherwege I don’t think that is the responsibility of the code. When defining the discovery criteria in the xml, it is sufficient to properly escape the special characters: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents But...

I don’t think we should allow scans on all interface. See discussion here, how it can cause drama with Docker: https://community.openhab.org/t/unsuccess-openhab-updated-from-4-0-2-to-4-1-0-on-docker-openhab-unresponsive/152282/24 OH does have a setting for the primary IP....