Calling a URL when Switch is Turned on?

[bickyb]

Hi,
I would like to make a web request to a URL when one of my virtual switches is turned on. I would like for the web request to be a POST request with a content type of application/json. I also have a body I would like to send in the request.
Currently I am using IFTTT and a maker channel to pull this off. However, that service can be a bit unreliable. I wanted to see if this can all be handled via Smart Things somehow.

[destructure00 (Chris)]

CoRE can do this.

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[JDRoberts]

Here’s another approach:

[OBSOLETE] URI Switch -- Device Handler for controlling items via HTTP calls

I’ve switched from X10 to ZWave but still have a handful of X10 devices that needed control. I installed Home Genie on a Raspberry Pi which gives me control of my devices via an HTTP call and I wanted a way to control this with SmartThings. With the help of @tguerena we’ve come up with URI Switch. URI Switch is a Device Handler that when attached to a Virtual Switch, kicks off a URL (External or Internal) when an On/Off command is sent Please refer to the following for instructions and usage information http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=URI_Switch While this was created for sending ON / OFF commands for my X10 devices, the ON / OFF commands could be a call to anything that takes a URI to control. Please let us know how this works for you and let us know what we can add…

[rajid (Richard Johnson)]

Thanks for posting this! I actually have the same issue with older X10 devices and I already had a web page interface with a special driver I wrote for controlling them. All I needed to do was grab this device handler, install it, and configure my X10 devices! (Of course, my web interface was returning ascii text and this caused an internal error in SmartThings when it tried to parse it as json. I just changed my server’s script to not return any reply and it works fine now!) Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for posting this as it saved me hours of time developing my own!