How to restart or shutdown a remote Raspberry Pi over SSH within openHAB

[rpwong (Russ)]

You need to edit sudoers.d to allow the openHAB user to run commands.

Beginner's guide to an openHABian reboot/shutdown switch

UPDATE, February 2, 2021: I’ve made a few edits to this tutorial so that it works for OH2 and OH3. It’s still written with text-based items and DSL rules that work in both versions. If you prefer to build your system in OH3’s UI, it should be pretty easy to convert the items and rules. As I get deeper into openHAB, I’m finding that I have to reboot or shutdown my Raspberry Pi reasonably often. It seemed like a good idea to set up a switch on my sitemap for that purpose, but was not nearly as e…