Neato Botvac Connected Quickapp

[Christophe van vossel 5]

Dear all,
in Recent event's trying to make a script to control my Neato Botvac Connected  i found a way to finally do this.
Together with the help of a dedicated member here on the forum that have gone through the code together with me i am happy to announce we have a working POC.

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A Quickapp code that actually lets you request all the data info from the robot and control it.

the idea started rom a github page that had some code on it to be able to control the robot via Postman and some info on the neato developer network page.

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once we did that i started to play around with coding in LUA to make a quickapp with a basic command via the API of Neato to request the robot data 
for this to work you need your robot serial as explained on the github page and manage to get your secret code.

i am currently still further developing the app and will post it here when done but i wanted to share the working code with whoever needs it.
regards Christophe
 

function QuickApp:getrobotinfo()

self:debug("onInit")

    local robotserial = "YOURROBOTSERIAL"

    local robotseriallow = string.lower(robotserial)

    local robotsecret = "YOURROBOTSECRET"

    local date = tostring(os.date("!%a, %d %b %Y %X GMT"))

    local body = '{"reqId": "77", "cmd": "getRobotState"}'

    local string_to_sign = robotseriallow .. "\n".. date .. "\n" .. body

    local signature = sha.hmac(sha.sha256, robotsecret, string_to_sign)

    local binary_hash = sha.hex2bin(signature)

    local base64_hash = sha.bin2base64(binary_hash)

    self.http = net.HTTPClient({timeout=5000})

   

    self.http:request("https://nucleo.neatocloud.com:4443/vendors/neato/robots/YOURROBOTSERIAL/messages", {

          options = {

              data = body,

              method = "POST",

              checkCertificate = false,

              headers = {

                ["Accept"] = "application/vnd.neato.nucleo.v1",

                ["Content-Type"] = "application/json",

                ["Date"] = date,

                ["Authorization"] = "NEATOAPP" .. " " .. signature,

                ["Host"] = "nucleo.neatocloud.com:4443",

              }

          },

          success = function(response)

              self:debug(response.status)

              self:debug(response.data)

          end,

          error = function(message)

              self:debug("error:", message)

          end

      })

end