openHAB

# Feed Binding

This binding allows you to integrate feeds in the openHAB environment. The Feed binding downloads the content, tracks for changes, and displays information like feed author, feed title and description, number of entries, last update date.

It can be used in combination with openHAB rules to trigger events on feed change. It uses the ROME library (opens new window) for parsing and supports a wide range of popular feed formats - RSS 2.00, RSS 1.00, RSS 0.94, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.91 UserLand, RSS 0.91 Netscape, RSS 0.90, Atom 1.0, Atom 0.3.

# Supported Things

This binding supports one Thing type: feed.

# Discovery

Discovery is not necessary.

# Binding Configuration

No binding configuration required.

# Thing Configuration

Required configuration:

Optional configuration:

  • refresh - a refresh interval defines after how many minutes the binding will check, if new content is available. Default value is 20 minutes.

# Channels

The binding supports following channels

Channel Type ID Item Type Description
latest-title String Contains the title of the last feed entry.
latest-description String Contains the description of the last feed entry.
latest-date DateTime Contains the published date of the last feed entry.
latest-link String Contains the link of the last feed entry.
latest-enclosure String Contains the enclosure link (podcast) of the last feed entry, if enclosure is present (used in podcasts).
author String The name of the feed author, if author is present.
title String The title of the feed.
description String Description of the feed.
last-update DateTime The last update date of the feed.
number-of-entries Number Number of entries in the feed.

# Example

Things:

feed:feed:bbc [URL="https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/news_front_page/rss.xml?edition=uk"]
feed:feed:techCrunch [URL="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/", refresh=60]

Items:

String latest_title           {channel="feed:feed:bbc:latest-title"}
String latest_description     {channel="feed:feed:bbc:latest-description"}
DateTime latest_date          {channel="feed:feed:bbc:latest-date"}
String latest_link            {channel="feed:feed:bbc:latest-link"}
String latest_enclosure       {channel="feed:feed:bbc:latest-enclosure"}
Number number_of_entries      {channel="feed:feed:bbc:number-of-entries"}
String description            {channel="feed:feed:bbc:description"}
String author                 {channel="feed:feed:bbc:author"}
DateTime published_date       {channel="feed:feed:bbc:last-update"}
String title                  {channel="feed:feed:bbc:title"}
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