Help with openhab restart button

[sutyagin (Alexey Sutyagin)]

Hi
Can you please advise me how to create command to execute openhab restart?
I have added exec binding, set item and thing but not sure how to execute this command:

#item
String openhab_restart “Restart Openhab” { channel=“exec:command:openhab_restart:input”, autoupdate=“false” }

#things
Thing exec:command:openhab_restart [command=“sudo systemctl restart openhab2.service”, interval=0, autorun=true]

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

See:

How to solve Exec binding problems

One of the most common problems I help people with on this forum is dealing with the Exec binding. So I’m writing this post so I can reference it later. Background When openHAB is installed in the automated way (i.e. via apt-get) an openhab user is created and the service runs under that user. The openhab user has the following attributes: no shell so one cannot log in or su to this user limited rights not a member of sudoers has a home directory in /var/lib/openhab (or /var/lib/openhab2) has…

The most likely problem is the openhab user is not a member of sudoers.

[skatun (Kim Skatun)]

Just out of curiosity why would you have a reset button in your sitemap?

I have done similar to you, to restart the ola(light service) on the rpi,

I added a physically switch to cut power to rpi, however maybe a good idea would have been to attach this to an gpio an use an outside openhab script to listen on this pin and then restart openhab

[sutyagin (Alexey Sutyagin)]

i had many instances when binding has stopped working and only restart helps. I want to be able to control it remotely without logging into rpi.

[sutyagin (Alexey Sutyagin)]

Thank you. This is what I have done and checked for the openhabian permissions to execute without the password.