psychuk

I would like to have a new item type added... Button. At the very least for those buttons to have 'press' and 'release' state change events (a state change to...

> Maybe the button from this Binding does what you want? https://community.openhab.org/t/magic-binding-4-0-0-0-4-2-0-0/144790 Interesting set of tools there, it doesn't state that those buttons are visible in standard sitemaps though. It's...

> I would imagine it would be an extension to the behavior of the Switch element with mappings. If you could get a switch to look like a button with...

> The `expire` Item metadata Just looked at that, good idea in principle, but that simply reverts to a state after a period of time, there is no way to...

> Well, like I said, an Item that doesn't represent a state violates the architecture and defined meaning of an Item Why would it not have an item state? Surely...

I am still hoping this will be adopted in some fashion, It still baffles me we have a toolset for almost everything you can touch in your home, apart from...

> What the use case of these new buttons? I read rollershutters somewhere, but the Android app already has a "press and hold" feature for the rollersutter buttons. Any item...

> @psychuk It really sounds as if you do not know the button feature yet. Check out https://demo.openhab.org/basicui/app?w=0202&sitemap=demo, where you can see a demo button. It is exactly made for...

> No, see my [comment above](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-core/issues/3822#issuecomment-1902753888). So given the UI element exists, its a matter of adding code based interaction functionality to the element. Is this correct?

> So imho the feature request here is mainly about adding support for different kinds of events like "released" or "double-press". I think `double click` events or `press and hold`...