Produce simple text output

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Searching for “text files” brings up zillions of hits about configuration, so if this has been discussed before it’s not easy to find. :slight_smile:

I’d like to produce simple text file output. My OpenHAB instance is not exposed to the internet, nor do I want it to be. So what I’d like to do is produce a simple text or HTML file that I can manually push to an internet site, which will let me see some basic status information.

I know I can generate this using the REST API, but that’s a pull instead of a push, so I’m curious if this can be done within OpenHAB. Maybe someone has created a text UI, or some other add-on that I am not seeing, or there’s some other way to accomplish it that I haven’t learned yet.

Suggestions?

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It depends what you really want to do, because it seems you want to push some kind of message from openhab to an webpage, what must not be related too a file creation.

E.g You can either use http binding to send a http request, that an existing webapp will process (e.g. sending a specific item state), or you can use exec binding to run any kind of script (what could also produce a file) or use javascript to call a webservice …

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The exec binding sounds like what I need. Thank you!