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I’m a new to openHAB trying to sending arguments to Linux bash script through Siri and by that openHAB will receive the argument, use it as input to my script and return the bash script output result as number or string that can be used again by Siri to respond to my original request.

During my learning process, I managed to create openHAB Thing, Item and Sitemap and wrote bash script then got it to run a ping command (ping 10.10.10.10 -c 2) by Homekit and Siri which wasn't that difficult. However, passing an IP address, string or a number to Siri doesn’t seem an easy part to config, at least for me.

During my online searches, you could tell that openHAB is pretty flexible and people are sending numbers, percentage and strings to their Things as input and getting dynamic outputs, so I’m guessing my requirements should be doable in similar a fashion or another. Here are sample scenarios trying to achieve:

Sample scenario1:
Request: Hey Siri, please ping 10.10.10.10
Response: 10.10.10.10 is reachable

Sample scenario2:
Request: Hey Siri, switch my internet provider to the second one
Response: Your provider now switched to X provider

I'm using Raspberry Pi and OpenHAB2, with HomeKit, RegEx Transformation, Exex binding all enabled.

Could you share example configs or any useful source of code that I can use to achieve that?

Appreciate your help.