Simple way to reload rules files

[Alex Wallace]

Can I tell openHab to reload my rules files or do I need to restart the whole system?

[Chris Jackson]

The system will automatically reload any configuration files - it checks every 10 seconds to see if a file has changed.

Chris

[Alex Wallace]

Awesome. Is this documented somewhere? 

[Kai Kreuzer]

Awesome. Is this documented somewhere? 

Yes, right in the main config file (https://github.com/openhab/openhab/blob/master/distribution/openhabhome/configurations/openhab_default.cfg):

# Configuration folders (must exist as a subdirectory of "configurations"; the value
# tells the number of seconds for the next scan of the directory for changes. A
# value of -1 deactivates the scan).
# A comma separated list can follow after the refresh value. This list defines a filter
# for valid file extensions for the models.
folder:items=10,items
folder:sitemaps=10,sitemap
folder:rules=10,rules
folder:scripts=10,script
folder:persistence=10,persist

[Alex Wallace]

Thanks Kai. I came back to say I found that :).

Now I am hunting for why openhab is claiming that port 8080 is occupied when starting up. I killed the process one time and now it seems upset everytime I start it back up.

As a result, nothing seems to want to work from the greent interface... I am somewhat threadjacking myself here, but since I have your attention... :)

12:41:35.705 WARN  o.e.j.u.c.AbstractLifeCycle[:199] - FAILED SelectChann...@0.0.0.0:8080: java.net.BindException: Address already in use

[Massimo]

@Kai: I'm trying to use -1 for the items file, as it is written in the main config file (I'm using OH 1.5.0), but the result is that the items file is not read. No items loaded. Is it correct? In my opinion, the items file would be read only at startup and then never update.
Massimo

[Kai Kreuzer]

That’s what I would expect, too. If it does not work, it might be a bug…

Am 30 Jun 2014 um 10:28 schrieb Massimo <ffar...@gmail.com>:

@Kai: I'm trying to use -1 for the items file, as it is written in the main config file (I'm using OH 1.5.0), but the result is that the items file is not read. No items loaded. Is it correct? In my opinion, the items file would be read only at startup and then never update.
Massimo

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[bergm...@yahoo.de]

You can wait a bit until Jetty (the web server in openhab) completely was shutdown.

You could also check with netstat which process is occupying port 8080 kill this process manually.

On Linux this would look like this:

# netstat -np | grep 8080

tcp        0      0 192.168.50.103:8080     192.168.50.100:51536    VERBUNDEN   41932/java

tcp        0      0 192.168.50.103:8080     192.168.50.100:50176    VERBUNDEN   41932/java

Now you could kill process 41932 which is openhab.

# ps aux | grep 41932

mbergma+ 41932  3.5 16.8 2142548 345064 ?      Sl   Jun26 180:16 java -Dosgi.clean=true -Declipse.ignoreApp=true -Dosgi.noShutdown=true -Djetty.port=8080 -Djetty.port.ssl=8443 -Djetty.home=. -Dlogback.configurationFile=configurations/logback.xml -Dfelix.fileinstall.dir=addons -Djava.library.path=lib -Djava.security.auth.login.config=./etc/login.conf -Dorg.quartz.properties=./etc/quartz.properties -Dequinox.ds.block_timeout=240000 -Dequinox.scr.waitTimeOnBlock=60000 -Dfelix.fileinstall.active.level=4 -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar server/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar


Manfred