How to set a variable to an output of an execute statement
Folks,
perhaps a stupid question but currently I have no glue how to set a variable inside a rule to an
return string of an executed script e.g.
$myVariable = execute “/home/pimatic/scripts/simplescript.sh”
(simplescript.sh just returns a string which I would like to “reuse” in pimatic.)
Many thanks for your help! (and for pimatic too!!!)
DerIng
Hi,
do it another way around, make a shellsensor, which gives you the return of your script.
Then you can use the variable from the shellsensor, if you understand what i mean
greetings
jensebub
I think it is not the same. As far as I know a ShellSensor can not be triggered by a rule, but only by its interval timer.
U 're right, my fault.
In that case you could trigger the script direktly in the rule and write in a logfile which is read by the logreader-plugin… I think 
May be using the Pimatic API directly in that script to modify the variable is a more direct solution.
Thanks for your answers/suggestions!
@jensebub : With the overhead of a logfile this should work.
But: What I currently recognize is that the logreader-plugin checks the logfile only every 10 minutes (but it’s changing every 5 minutes! - Bug?)
And: Can I use strings as an output for logreader-plugin?
@Heizelmann: This sounds good. Do you have a very simple/small example how this is working?
I am sorry, I don’t use it myself. But there is a simple example at http://pimatic.org/guide/api/
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