Calling a scene via API - method removed?

[RiccardoCanetta 13]

Hi, I am trying to call a scene from a RaspberryPi using a Python script. Unfortunately I cannot use the format

http://user%40email.com:password@myHC2ip/api/sceneControl?action=start&id=11

as I get a "missing parameter". It seems that neither curl nor python's urllib3 pass the "&" correctly (I also tried replacing it with %26).

So I am trying to use the /api/scenes/11/actions/start format but in this case I get "501 Not Implemented"

 

Was the latter method removed from a certain version of HC2? I am on 4.140

 

Thanks
R

Edited January 12, 2018 by rcanetta
Wrong category.

[SmarterHOME 12]

Hello,

try to use these formats of calling a scene via API mentioned bellow, maybe that help.

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@ = %40  = @ (ASCII interpretation)

There is only difference in @ sign interpretation, so you could try every option and give me information if any of call mentioned above woks, can not test it right now by myself.

 

Port - Default port for HC2 is 80, if you do not change it. It should work also without port.

ID=1 - consider that you know what this stands for, but only for sure. Number 1 stands for ID of scene which you want to run via this call. You can find this ID in Advanced tab in particular scene or using REST API of Fibaro gateway

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Notice: But probably there is an issue with using @ sign in username, so the best solution would be create the new user with username not using email adress in Fibaro HC2. Do not forget assign the scenes and devices to new user of HC2. You can allow the new user to use all scenes or devices or just some of them. Then try again like this:

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Let me know if it helps, so we can help others

Edited January 12, 2018 by SmarterHOME

[petergebruers 1,261]

23 hours ago, rcanetta said:

So I am trying to use the /api/scenes/11/actions/start format but in this case I get "501 Not Implemented"

 

Was the latter method removed from a certain version of HC2? I am on 4.140

 

I haven't used that syntax for ages! I even forgot it existed, thank you for reminding me, but it might be gone indeed... 

 

Does this help? Library "requests" handles all the encoding and escaping. Works on my mac, python 2 and 3

 

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[RiccardoCanetta 13]

5 hours ago, petergebruers said:

 

I haven't used that syntax for ages! I even forgot it existed, thank you for reminding me, but it might be gone indeed... 

 

Does this help? Library "requests" handles all the encoding and escaping. Works on my mac, python 2 and 3

 

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Hi, happy that I made you feel younger! :-))

 

Thanks a lot, this worked!!

 

Have a great weekend

Riccardo

[DrPepper 0]

Hi,

 

I can confirm there are some http-requests which works - and some that seems to have an issue.

 

1. I've been trying to directly control a specific device using the method which can be "built" by page

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Recommendations - use Username (not email) and password and don't make any of these complicated.

Of course this is a problem with security to have easy passwords, but, since you're not able to use HTTPS anyway you're still sending everything in plain text over a network connection so, you should NOT have these kind of triggers doing anything which you don't want other people to be able to activate - not even if you're on your own network. Security is relative - it's only as strong as your knowledge about protection allows and there is always going to be someone who's more clever than you and can circumvent your efforts.

Normal characters "works". "Works" - is a relative meaning for me and this function, because strangely I can get one, perhaps two triggers of a device this way - if I am lucky. Then no more responses on them.

 

2. Scenes - also from same webpage works better. I have an odd method of telling when to actually send the http-request to start a scene so I have a reliabillity issue because of that. However, sending this string through a reliable trigging method, always works. The best with this one is that if you need to add or change a device, you do that in the scene and don't have to fiddle with the http-strings as such.

 

Good luck,

DrPepper

 

HC2 running 4.160 SW version

[Ros 22]

Is it possible to pass arguments when starting a scene via HTTP API? I mean arguments in a manner similar to fibaro:args()?

[RiccardoCanetta 13]

On 3/18/2018 at 11:25 PM, Ros said:

Is it possible to pass arguments when starting a scene via HTTP API? I mean arguments in a manner similar to fibaro:args()?

 

Hi, I have never seen anything like this. But, you can use a global variable and act in the scene based on the value of the GlobalVariable...

 

Just my 2c

R

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1 hour ago, rcanetta said:

I have never seen anything like this