Exec Binding strange behavior

[rossko57]

It’s not the exec binding, it’s not openHAB, its Windows service restrictions.
I don’t know of any “fix”

Help with EXEC binding when running OH as service on Windows

Hey, guys. I’m running openHAB 2.5.5 as service on Windows 10. I have a simple rule: rule "Shutdown Server" when Item System_Shutdown received command ON then executeCommandLine("C:\\openHAB2\\conf\\bat\\shutdown.bat", 1000) end And the content of my shutdown.bat file is also pretty simple (for test purposes): notepad.exe I’ve been trying to make the EXEC binding work for quite a while and that what I’ve found: if i start OH with the start.bat script, everything works and notepad …

OH3 Windows 10 executeCommandLine can't run batch files

Is there a reason OH 3 (Windows 10 3.1.0M1) executeCommandLine in a script will not run a batch file? Doesn’t matter where the file is. It will not run any batch file anywhere. I can run anything else just fine, but not a batch file. It immediately returns null. Other things like dir also don’t work. But for example ipconfig works fine. Anything that doesn’t work from the script works perfectly fine from the command line. I have tried everything and I’m losing my mind.