Can HC2 listen to GET request?

[3JL 7]

Hi all,

I am very new to the whole scripting thing. Essentially I would like to run a scene when the Doorbell is rang. From the API doc (

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) I understand this should be possible.

 

I tried to listen to the monitoring.cgi in a virtual device. But this always returns doorbell=0. Apparently the loop is too slow to capture the event... 

 

The doorbird can also send notifications via http get. Can I use this as a trigger? And how?

 

Thanks!

[10der 832]

no. only via the own wrapper.

so, inner HTTP call (as I can understand this is 3th party soft device with the incompatible calling for HC2) ---> own wrapper to http://hc2_address/api ---> HC2 api (see also http://hc2_address/docs)

[3JL 7]

2 hours ago, 10der said:

no. only via the own wrapper.

so, inner HTTP call (as I can understand this is 3th party soft device with the incompatible calling for HC2) ---> own wrapper to http://hc2_address/api ---> HC2 api (see also http://hc2_address/docs)

 

Thanks for tour reply! I think I understand what you are saying.

Such a wrapper could e.g. be running on a raspberry pi or synology I guess? 

 

Just a php script would suffice right? Or would you have easier suggestions?

 

Edited April 11, 2017 by 3JL

[jakub.jezek 370]

@3JL and @10der, DoorBird can run a scene in Fibaro, why not to use it?

 

Loop in VD runs every 3 seconds. Tested on very small code.

 

It can be done by following command (example for doorbell):

http://<deviceip>/bha-api/notification.cgi?url=http:/HC_IP/api/scenes/ID_SCENE&user=username&password=password&event=doorbell&subscribe=1

or

http://<deviceip>/bha-api/notification.cgi?url=http:/username:password@HC_IP/api/scenes/ID_SCENE&user=&password=&event=doorbell&subscribe=1

Edited April 11, 2017 by jakub.jezek

[10der 832]

2 hours ago, 3JL said:

 

Thanks for tour reply! I think I understand what you are saying.

Such a wrapper could e.g. be running on a raspberry pi or synology I guess? 

 

Just a php script would suffice right? Or would you have easier suggestions?

 

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or QNAP, 

 

but yes, Jakub gave the right answer for your solution.

 

[3JL 7]

Thanks That works indeed!

Another valuable lesson

[robd 2]

Can we turn this the other way?

I have a Raspberry PI collecting data from a Zehnder WHR 930 Luxe ventilation unit.

the PI has also to send setpoint data to the WHR 930.

 

How to connect the PI to the HC2 and where to put the initiative.

possibility 1. the HC2 is the master and retrieves data from and sends data to the PI

Possibility 2. the PI is the master and sends data to global variables in the HC2 and reads another global variable from the HC2

 

what is the easiest way to set this up?

[jakub.jezek 370]

@robd,

Well normaly it's done by possibility 1.

I have experience with this from Fibaro, Control4 and Neets. PI is somethink in the middle of Ventilation or Controller. It same like with Global Cache (even if it's moreless 1-way control). You have something in the middle.

 

For example some time ago i was with colleague supporting one project with Neets and Atrea ventilation unit.

Neets sets setpoint with HTTP protocol to PI and PI converts it to Modbus TCP and sends it to ventilation unit.

I would done same with Fibaro and it could even work with HCL.

[robd 2]

23 hours ago, jakub.jezek said:

@robd,

Well normaly it's done by possibility 1.

I have experience with this from Fibaro, Control4 and Neets. PI is somethink in the middle of Ventilation or Controller. It same like with Global Cache (even if it's moreless 1-way control). You have something in the middle.

 

For example some time ago i was with colleague supporting one project with Neets and Atrea ventilation unit.

Neets sets setpoint with HTTP protocol to PI and PI converts it to Modbus TCP and sends it to ventilation unit.

I would done same with Fibaro and it could even work with HCL.

@jakub.jezek

Thanks.

Yes the PI is in between ventilation unit and HC2 controller.

The ventilation unit only supports RS232 with its own protocol.

HC2 does not support RS232 so I use the PI as level and protocol converter to HTTP

[jakub.jezek 370]

@robd,

For IP ro RS232, you can do it with Global Cache, that i think is more suitable for this.

[robd 2]

I have my PI running now and I want to check the connection between the PI and the HC2

I am running the LUA code

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the result is:

attempt to index global 'Net' (a nil value)

apparently the Net.FHttp call returns a nil value

do I have to install an API to run this?

[10der 832]

On 29.04.2017 at 5:10 PM, robd said:

I have my PI running now and I want to check the connection between the PI and the HC2

I am running the LUA code

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the result is:

attempt to index global 'Net' (a nil value)

apparently the Net.FHttp call returns a nil value

do I have to install an API to run this?

 

If honestly very strange as for me (when I was stared at first time develop LUA scripts for FIBARO), but please, remember some basic functions / methods in FIBARO LUA script have differen notation/ calls in Scenario and VIrtual Devices. 

 

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For VD

And for scenes should look like 

--[[
%% properties


%% globals
--]]
local http = net.HTTPClient()  
  http:request('https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/{event}/with/key/{cencored}', {
      success = function(resp)
        if resp.status == 200 then
          fibaro:debug(resp.status)
          
        else
          fibaro:debug(resp.status)
       
        end
      end
    })

 

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by 10der

[yeowsiang 0]

On ‎4‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 9:57 PM, jakub.jezek said:

@3JL and @10der, DoorBird can run a scene in Fibaro, why not to use it?

 

Loop in VD runs every 3 seconds. Tested on very small code.

 

It can be done by following command (example for doorbell):

http://<deviceip>/bha-api/notification.cgi?url=http:/HC_IP/api/scenes/ID_SCENE&user=username&password=password&event=doorbell&subscribe=1

or

http://<deviceip>/bha-api/notification.cgi?url=http:/username:password@HC_IP/api/scenes/ID_SCENE&user=&password=&event=doorbell&subscribe=1

Hi,

I have followed your instruction to subscribe to the dooropen event using the Notification.cgi command. I can see the JSON content that the subscribe is already =1. When I click on the DoorOpen button in the DoorBird App, I can see the message OK but the door is not open. When I manually execute the subscribed url -

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 in the browser, it works. Hope you are able to advise what went wrong?