Due to the last myopenhab-cloud problem:
I was wondering if there is any chance to get the cloud connection status displayed within a sitemap or to trigger a mail notification from within a rule?
The easiest way to display it on a sitemap would be use the Webview element to display http://status.openhab.org/check/359410.
Thanks for your answer but as we saw today, the output of
http://status.openhab.org/check/359410
is not reliableā¦ So I was thinking if there is the other way round - to check if the OH cloud-connector is onlineā¦
Ah, I misunderstood. Youāre looking for your OH server to somehow indicate whether or not itās able to connect to the openHAB cloud. I was reading you the other way around.
Yes right! Yesterday the web-status-page showed everything ok but the openhab-cloud-connector got disconnectedā¦ As I can see the status-messages in the logfile, I was wondering, if itās possible to get the status into an itemā¦
You should be able to query the status page openHAB Cloud - Events (myopenhab.org) from inside a rule using your myopenhab credentials, then parse the contents. Eventually even using the HTTP binding.
To get the online status you may check if this script works: Myopenhab connection state - #12 by Wolfgang_S
After a hint from Ritch, I am now using the logreader-binding to see when cloud gets disconnected. That fits my needs as I wanted to know when the cloud connection gets interrupted (no matter if itās a local or a remote problem)
Sure! I am just in the migration phase to OH3.1 but I guess it will work the same way like in OH2.5.
So first of all I created a logreader thing:
And as Custom Patterns I used this string (please note the pipe-sign between the 2 strings):
Disconnected from the openHAB Cloud service|Connected to the openHAB Cloud service
I also increased the Refresh Rate from 1000 to 10000 milliseconds as this should be enough and events less than 10 seconds shouldnāt create panic.
Basically you need only 2 items - one for the custom event string and the other one is just a virtual switch to display the connection status:
String LogReaderLastCustomEvent "Last custom event [%s]" <error>
{channel="logreader:reader:openhabcloud:lastCustomEvent"}
Switch OpenHAB_CLOUD_connected "OH Cloud Connected [%s]" <network>
And a simple rule which triggers after a custom event string appeared:
rule "LogReader OpenHAB-Cloud"
when
Channel "logreader:reader:openhabcloud:newCustomEvent" triggered
then
if (LogReaderLastCustomEvent.toString.contains("Disconnected from")) {
postUpdate(OpenHAB_CLOUD_connected, OFF)
LineMessage.sendCommand ("Openhab Cloud disconnected")
}
if (LogReaderLastCustomEvent.toString.contains("Connected to")) {
postUpdate(OpenHAB_CLOUD_connected, ON)
LineMessage.sendCommand ("Openhab Cloud connected")
}
end
!!! Please take care to NOT log the LogReaderLastCustomEvent-String with logInfo - you would run into an endless loop (trust me, I know āsomebodyā who did this 
) !!!
Finally a small item in the sitemap:
Text item=OpenHAB_CLOUD_connected valuecolor=[=="OFF"="red",=="ON"="green"]
Here is the result:
A side note:
- I used LineMessage which delivers a notification to my mobile as it doesnāt make sense to try sending a push notification to the Openhab mobile app via the Openhab-Cloud when itās offline. As I am in the lucky situation of having a triple wan redundancy, I should be able to send out the notification anytime (as long as Murphy doesnāt hit me
). Of course you can use any other messaging tool like WhatsApp, PushSafer, PushBullet, PushOver, etc. or using a local gsm modem to send a sms.
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Thanks!
This got my attention: how do you send to WhatsApp from within OH ?
I think I shot myself in my leg I am not using Whatsapp at all - instead Iām using the Line Messenger which is offering an official API and Iām able to even send picturesā¦ I just wrote a wrapper-shell-script around and run this with executeCommandLine but I just found this:
