Changing label of Virtual device with HTTP command

[RonOud 0]

Hi,

 

I have a HC2, and I am looking for the HTTP command for changing the value of a Virtual Device.

 

I found all kind of HTTP commands to turn devices on and off, or to start a scene, but i can't find the command to put a value in a label of a virtual device.

 

I think it has to be something like:

http://<ip-address>/api/callAction?deviceID=<virtualdeviceid>&name=

 

Can anyone help me?

 

[Barlow 19]

@RonOud

 

Check out the following posts:

 

[RonOud 0]

@Barlow

 

Thanks for the response.

 

I checked both posts, but I only see solutions for changing the label of a VD with Lua code from within the HC2.

 

I'm looking for a http command which I can use to change a label of a VD from outside the HC2, the same way as I can turn on a device with a http command from outside HC2 (http://<ip-address>/api/callAction?deviceID=<virtualdeviceid>&name=turnOn)

 

 

[StefanS 1]

I do not know a direct api call for your Problem. But you could create a scene with the LUA code for changing the label in it and execute it with a http request as a workaround.

The problem will be... you cannot push values to use as Label.

Edited February 5, 2019 by StefanS

[Guest skarotech]

Yes, you can do it via HTTP post command,

 

create a string like so

{"args":["ui.XXXX.value","123456"]}

 

where XXXX is the name of the label, and 123456 is the text you want on the label, then do a post of the string to 

 

http://#fibaro_ip#/api/devices/#fibaro_id#/action/setProperty

 

You can also do the same for sliders

 

{"args":["X","#device_value#"]}

 

where X is the position number of the slider in the VD, and the post to

 

http://#fibaro_ip#/api/devices/#fibaro_id#/action/setSlider

Edited February 5, 2019 by skarotech

[RonOud 0]

@skarotech

 

I don't know understand the part with creating a string how it is constructed.

 

I tried it with a piece of PHP code like this:

 

      $url = 'http://<ipadress>/api/devices/<deviceid>/action/setProperty';
      $myvars = ???????

      $ch = curl_init( $url );
      curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
      curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myvars);
 

But how exactly must the piece of string look like?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest skarotech]

@RonOud

 

{"args":["ui.XXXX.value","123456"]} is a JSON object, you will need to create this in PHP as JSON, then send it as a string

 

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[RonOud 0]

@skarotech

 

I'm terrible with JSON. I have tried several things to get the string layout via a JSON object, but with no succes.

Somehow I have to put 2 values 

 

      $data = array(
          (object)array(
              'args' => 'ui.zon.value' , '123456',
            ),
          );

      $myvars = json_encode($data);
      echo "$myvars";
 

The output of the variabele is: [{"args":"ui.zon.value","0":"123456"}]

 

When I try this:

 

      $data = array(
          (object)array(
              'args' => 'ui.zon.value' ,
              'args' => '123456',
            ),
          );

      $myvars = json_encode($data);
      echo "$myvars";
 

The output of the variabele is offcourse:  [{"args":"123456"}]

The second overwrite the first one.

 

Can you (or anyone else) help me to get this correct.

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 2019 by RonOud