I’ll keep it as short as possible
TL;DR: i want to open my sitemap en item files in windows for easy access via a network share and prefer to edit my files in notepad.
Thought i had the solution but…
Found the [homes] in the /etc/samba/smb.config, put this as “browseable” and created a network share in windows, all working fine.
Doing “ls” via ssh shows the exact same data as i see in windows.(not the one i need though)
This data is only correct only if i have just connected to my RPI, if i would have changed a directory and try to go back by doing a “cd…”
One picture shows more then thousand words they say… i feel like this so here you go:
The samba config is setup to share the contents of /etc/openhab2
This can be changed but for OH you shouldn’t need to.
Not sure what’s in your test file, a script? If so move the test file to /etc/openhab2/scripts
To move the file, from the directory it’s in use > mv test /etc/openhab2/scripts (or whatever path you need)
thx for sharing the info, thats a url that goes in to my favorites as well
i have hardly any linux xp and this will come in handy very much
“test” is just a folder which i now use to share files with windows, i just copy what i need into that and back after editting.
But seems that when removing the home.sitemap in the orignial folder and then copy my new version out this “test” folder back to the good location that this makes it that my sitemap is not found anymore via Basic UI.
I notice my home.sitemap file is green instead of white now as well via ssh.
so i googled and found this:
Green : Executable or recognized data file
shouldnt this be a good thing?
Though… by default that file was white before i did something wrong
Use> ls -al to show ownership and permissions. I’m testing Piface on the latest snapshot as we chat here’s a pic.
Notice the piface is root root. I can use chown to change this or use the openhabian tools by typing> sudo openhabian-config
Then select “Apply Improvements” and “Fix Permissions”
Here is a pic of the same files after using openhabian tools.
Notice the owner and group has been changed to openhab opanhabian.
This is indeed a permission issue it seems.
Though fix permissions did work, the item is still green and not accessable via basicUI
I dont think i did something wrong.
no the file is actually located in the default folder like it was before: /etc/openhab2/sitemaps/
it had indeed the root permission issue which was fixed by using the fix permission interface.
i initially copied my home.items and home.sitemap file to home/openhabian/test
i editted both via windows and my network share.
i then removed the orignials.
i then copied the editted files back to original place /etc/openhab2/items and /etc/openhab2/sitemaps
It was then noticed myfile was green.
and i fixed the permission but the file stays green.
first of no need to excuse , i am not in a position to complain, you have been so helpfully already!
this is my new result. (it added an “r” on the file, i assume read)
file is still green and sitemap not yet visible in basicUI
the 2nd screenshot that u see is what happend, not sure tho when this exactly happend.
the 3th screenshot is cause i think there is a chance you might ask for it
i added in the sitemap file only the “EX line” and then labels “lichten” and “rolgordijnen”.
the other labels i have added in the past so they are there for a while
I don’t see anything that looks wrong with your sitemap file. Try commenting out the changes made earlier in the sitemap file using // at the start of Group item=EX label=“Buitenshuis” to see if that makes a difference.
Comment out example for sitemap, notice the // and their location.
Frame label="Garage Door and Motion Detection"
{
// Switch item=Proxy_Motion label="Turn OFF to Disable Motion Dection for 1 hour"
Text item=ESP_Easy_Door label="Garage Door [MAP(esp.map):%s]"
// Text item=Esp_Easy_Motion label="Garage Movement [%s]" labelcolor=[OFF="green", ON="red"] valuecolor=[OFF="green", ON="red"]
Text item=Esp_Garage_Lightlevel label="Garage Light Level [%d %%]"
Text item=Proxy_Lightlevel label="Garage Light Status [%s]"
}
