From 7130886d220e2296c0b4f1d9e3f00684f6367e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lolodomo <lg.hc@free.fr>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:30:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [remoteopenhab] Accept Decimal state for items of type Number
 with a dimension (#9151)

Signed-off-by: Laurent Garnier <lg.hc@free.fr>
---
 .../internal/handler/RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler.java        | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.remoteopenhab/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/remoteopenhab/internal/handler/RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler.java b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.remoteopenhab/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/remoteopenhab/internal/handler/RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler.java
index b9744f3dc..b6324ca66 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.remoteopenhab/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/remoteopenhab/internal/handler/RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.remoteopenhab/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/remoteopenhab/internal/handler/RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler.java
@@ -463,9 +463,13 @@ public class RemoteopenhabBridgeHandler extends BaseBridgeHandler
             }
         } else if (acceptedItemType.startsWith(CoreItemFactory.NUMBER + ":")) {
             // Item type Number with dimension
-            if (checkStateType(itemName, stateType, "Quantity")) {
+            if (stateType == null || "Quantity".equals(stateType)) {
                 List<Class<? extends State>> stateTypes = Collections.singletonList(QuantityType.class);
                 channelState = TypeParser.parseState(stateTypes, state);
+            } else if ("Decimal".equals(stateType)) {
+                channelState = new DecimalType(state);
+            } else {
+                logger.debug("Unexpected value type {} for item {}", stateType, itemName);
             }
         } else {
             switch (acceptedItemType) {