Widget - Execute Operating System commands

[jkandasa]

Now it is possible to execute Operating System commands from MyController dashboard. This request created based on the input from https://github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller/issues/450

Add OS Reboot and Date button on the dashboard.

Select OS Commands from widget list,

Update button details as follows,

If we enabled confirmation for a button, will be displayed as follows, Here it is reboot button

Button JSON content:

[
  {
    "name": "<i class='fa fa-power-off'></i>",
    "os": "linux",
    "command": "reboot",
    "btnType": "danger",
    "confirmation": true
  },
  {
    "name": "Date",
    "os": "linux",
    "command": "date"
  }
]

Supported fields:

• name - (Mandatory) Name of the button. can be in the form of HTML also. HTML or icons(recommended: font awesome icons)
• os - (Optional) Operating System, supports, linux and common. If we leave, will be considered as common.
• btnType - (Optional) can be any one of value in the list [default, primary, success, info, warning, danger] when we leave this field field as blank, default will be selected. Each value give
• confirmation - (Optional) If you want to confirm before execute this command. Will be good to add on reboot, poweroff commands. Default: false.

[skywatch]

This is excellent news - now even more control from within myc !!!

There are so many uses for this flexibility - I only asked for a reboot/shutdown button as it would eliminate an ssh connection each time I need to work on the pi - but this is just way better than that!

Thank you sooooo much