OH3: CMD API (aka: classicui/CMD=)

[hmerk (Hans-Jörg Merk)]

@oppo1967p

Well, this is exactly the typical answer that doesn’t help the community to solve its problem.
It’s very easy to say “Use OH2” or “It might stop working at anytime” instead of understanding that some users have some needs and try to solve them out. Sorry to be so hard.

Nothing you must excuse for, I can handle such answers

Yes, my answer is not solving YOUR issue, but for openHAB, this is not an issue.
It was already mentioned 2015 and later, not to use the CMD servlet :

Rest PUT not working in OH2

This is part of the Classic UI and still exists in OH2 as well. But it was never meant as an API for external integration, the REST API is indeed the way to go. It does not actually control / send a command You can find the docs here: https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/rest/index.html PUT does on MyItem/state does a status update, POST on MyItem sends a command. TOGGLE, which seems to have been added to OH1 Toggle is no valid command, the CMD servlet only used that as a convenience func…

[SOLVED] Use URL to manipulate items in OH2?

Well, it mentions that “the Classic UI URL has changed from /openhab.app to /classicui/app”. Note that the CMD servlet is an internal part of the Classic UI that is NOT meant to be used by anybody else (although it is of course possible). But as it is not an official feature, I would claim it should also not be documented. The way to interact with external systems is clearly the REST API.

@oppo1967p

Just for your information, I have contributed with donations to this project and also developed some changes in a binding.

Thanks for your donations, we really appretiate it. But should this change my opinion? No, don’t think so.