Network Health Binding

Documentation of the NetworkHealth binding Bundle

Introduction

For installation of the binding, please see Wiki page Bindings.

Generic Item Binding Configuration

In order to bind an item to a NetworkHealth check, you need to provide configuration settings. The easiest way to do so is to add some binding information in your item file (in the folder configurations/items). The syntax for the NetworkHealth binding configuration string is explained here:

nh="<hostname>[:port][:timeout]"

where the parts in [] are optional. If no port is configured a simple ping is issued. If no timeout is configured the query defaults to '5000' milliseconds.

Here are some examples of valid binding configuration strings:

nh="openhab.org"
nh="openhab.org:443"
nh="openhab.org:443:2000"

As a result, your lines in the items file might look like the following:

Switch Network_OpenhabWebsite   "openHAB Web"   (Status, Network)   { nh="openhab.org" }