Open URL via Event Action

[dennis48755]

Hi,

I am relatively new to HomeSeer and this forum and I'm not sure this is the correct place to ask this.

I am trying have an event control a Control By Web device. To do this, I need the Action of the event to open a URL, for example; http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=1.

Could someone please help me with this? If it requires I script, I am not a programmer so I would ask for specific help.

Thanks,
Dennis

[mrhappy]

Hi,

I am relatively new to HomeSeer and this forum and I'm not sure this is the correct place to ask this.

I am trying have an event control a Control By Web device. To do this, I need the Action of the event to open a URL, for example; http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=1.

Could someone please help me with this? If it requires I script, I am not a programmer so I would ask for specific help.

Thanks,
Dennis

To do this it likely needs either a HTTP Post or Get. A way to test this is to put that URL in a web browser and if you go to the link and it works then it will be OK with a Get. If so the script can be quite simple as HS already has options to do this for you and you might not need a full script (a single line script entry may do) so try running this and see how you get on;

&hs.URLAction("http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=1", "GET", "", "")

[dennis48755]

mrhappy,

...see how you get on;

I get it (ha, ha)

&hs.URLAction("http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=1", "GET", "", "")

Worked perfect, thank you so much mrhappy.

I entered your suggested command in "Execute immediate script command: " under Run a Script... Could I have also added the command in a text file and pointed to the txt file?

I get so excited when these things work.

Dennis

[mrhappy]

mrhappy,


I get it (ha, ha)



Worked perfect, thank you so much mrhappy.

I entered your suggested command in "Execute immediate script command: " under Run a Script... Could I have also added the command in a text file and pointed to the txt file?

I get so excited when these things work.

Dennis

Yes you can put this in a script without issue, just for a non-immediate command you can drop the leading & (and I would recommend using .vb script files rather than .txt). As an example if you create a virtual device in the UI it will default to an on/off set of buttons with a value of 100 being on an 0 being off.

You can then create an event that triggers whenever this device changes value, you can then run a script that runs with this event. In this script you can do something like;

Sub Main(ByVal Parms As Object)

Select Case hs.devicevalueex(1234) 'change this to the device reference of your device

Case 0 : hs.URLAction("http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=0", "GET", "", "")
Case 100 : hs.URLAction("http://192.168.92.25/state.xml?relay9State=1", "GET", "", "")

End Select

End Sub

And you will hopefully find the output turns on/off depending on your device in HS.

[dennis48755]

Thanks again mrhappy.

It took me a while to figure out the device reference value in your script, then I finally came across the Reference ID field under the Devices Advanced tab.

I appreciate all your help.
Dennis

[PeterRoelofs]

I've been trying to use this method to run my controlbyweb relays and most times it works but I still keep getting an error in the log.
In my vb.net script I use:
hs.URLAction("http://ipaddress.com:80XX/state.xml?relay1State=1", "GET", "", "")
and it gives me error in log:
In URLAction GET: The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine

Is there any way to modify (hs.URLAction) to properly deal with the .xml file format?

[alexbk66]

For those interested https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/hs...olbyweb-plugin