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Hello,

is it possible to hide certain runtime.busevent messages from the console? I am using an self-made wind-speed sensor that publishes data about every second on the console which looks like this

2016-06-28 23:18:20.134 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.11
2016-06-28 23:18:21.296 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.46
2016-06-28 23:18:22.515 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.2
2016-06-28 23:18:23.739 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.24
2016-06-28 23:18:25.106 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 1.98
2016-06-28 23:18:26.221 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.51
2016-06-28 23:18:27.411 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 2.46
2016-06-28 23:18:28.797 [INFO ] [runtime.busevents             ] - Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to 1.98

As far as I understood the answer to this post it is only possible to disable logging for an entire binding, but as there are other devices using the mqtt binding in my case I don’t want to disable everything. Is it possible to just hide all messages starting with Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to?

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I’m assuming OH 1.

It is not possible to just turn off logging statements that match a certain string. You can only control it for a full binding.

However, you can filter the log using standard command line rules. On Windows you need cygwin or some other similar type environment.

On Unix/Linux/OSX you would run the following from the command line:

tail -f <path to openhab.log> | grep -v "Weather_Windspeed_Dach state updated to"

Replace <path to openhab.log> with the actual path to your log file.

The tail -f will print any new contents to the supplied file to the screen.
The | takes that output and pipes it into the following command.
grep is a filtering command that is used to only print those files that match a given text. The -v inverts this behavior so only those lines that do not match the text get printed.

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Using grep to filter is an option but it doesn’t prevent all the useless disk writes. In syslog it is possible to filter by text so I might have to send the openhab logs through syslog.

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I don’t know if OH has the ability natively to send its logs to syslog. If it does or you figure out a way post how you did it back here others can benefit.