Help with command_line sensor to execute shell script

Configuration
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Hi all - I’m tearing my hair out trying to setup a simple command_line sensor, which executes a script to retrieve it’s value.

I’ve configured the sensor like below and have my_script.sh located in my home assistant /config directory.

- platform: command_line
  name: my_script_name
  command: "my_script.sh"

However, the sensor always fails with the following error:

/bin/sh: my_script.sh: not found
2020-08-16 19:06:05 ERROR (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.components.command_line] Command failed: my_script.sh

If I change the command to pwd or ls I can see the working directory for the command is /config and in the ls output I can see my_script.sh listed. I’m clearly missing something very basic here. Note - I’m running home assistant in docker under Ubuntu if that’s important.

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Dave

2

Have you set the file’s permissions to include execution?

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Yep, it’s been chmod a+x. Note - I can run it myself on the command line without issue

4

Is there some sort of typo involved here?

The first line of the error message you posted indicates my_scipt.sh which lacks an r in the word script.

Or is it just a copy-paste error?

5

Sorry, the script is actually named something else. That’s just a typo in my effort to sanitize for my post here. The real script name matches up with filename in sensor config.

6

Hello, did you ever find a solution. I am having the same issue. I can run it manually but does not run as a command_line sensor via YAML

7

What about the

"/full/path/to/my_script.sh"

?

8

@HomeTheatersRock I’m afraid I was never able to get it working…