Scene with arguments from REST API

[stalar 0]

So I built a rain sensor using an Arduino that I would like to talk to my HC2. My first attempt was using the REST API to set a global variable "raining" depending on the state of the sensor. This works, but unfortunately scenes that use the "raining" global as a trigger do not trigger when it is changed though the REST API. That seems like a bug to me.

 

My second solution is to call two different scenes from the Arduino instead: "rainStarted" and "rainStopped" and have those scenes set a global variable, or call other scenes. That should work, but it would be nice to only have a single scene and send an argument or parameter to it to indicate if it is raining or not. The REST API documentation seems to indicate that you can send arguments to scenes; The POST /scenes/{sceneID}/action/{action} endpoint takes a 

SceneAction {

  args (array, optional),

  pin (string, optional)

}

as a parameter. But I can't find a way to retrieve the argument in the scene. Any ideas?

 

Or any other suggestions for solving my problem?

 

Thanks!

 

[Sankotronic 2,370]

Hi @stalar and welcome to Fibaro forum!

 

To trigger scene when changing global variable using REST API please check solution here:

 

[stalar 0]

Aha! Looks like what I need. Too bad the documentation does not mention this. 

 

Thanks!

Edited June 20, 2017 by stalar