File sensor? I'm migrating from Home Assistant to OH2. Need a bit of help!

[rossko57]

@openforbusiness

Home Assistant reads it every 30 sec then extracts the section I need via regex.

Example of openHAB rule reading from a file

CSV file reading

There are several ways. Assuming that the CSV always looks like this you can get the last value using: val setpoint = executeCommandLine("cat /full/path/to/file.csv", 1000).split(",").get(7) The “correct” solution though would be to change the python script generating this output to use something more parse-able like JSON or XML and then you can use standard transformations. or

but as said, why not bypass the external scripts and jus read from serial