Viewing logs in VSCode

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime
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Hi Team,

I’d discovered a good post on how to view the logs with VSCode, which will update in realtime:

I like the concept as I already have VSCode open for other programming. But I can’t get this to work. I’ve followed the settings.json suggestion but when I try to open one of the log files I only get a return of “no matching file found.” An example of my pattern entry is:

"pattern": "\\\\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\\openHAB-logs\\openhab.log"

Where I insert the local address of the openHAB server. I have the “openHAB-logs” defined properly within my smb.conf file. Any suggestions?

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Interesting thread, you’re pointing to.

This works for me:

            "title": "openhab.log",
            "pattern": "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=gehirn.local,share=openhab-logs/openhab.log"

It requires that you have opened the samba share with gvfs (e.g. Nautilus).

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@usambara, thank you for the reply! I’m a bit less adept on the linux side of the operation; can you decode your pattern for me? I’m remoting in to my openHAB server, it’s not the local machine and with the server’s address it’s still not functioning

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not sure if I can, but at least I’ll try:
I’m using the file manager nautilus (default with Gnome at debian linux) to connect to my samba shares on the remote servers.
grafik

This is creating a directory you can use to access the remote share. This is located under /run/user/<your user id>/gvfs/. This directory is created with the name “smb-share:server=gehirn.local,share=openhab-logs”.
I think this is comparable to creating a remote drive (e.g. Z:) for your share at windows.