Sending data to Influxdb

[zcapr17 (codersaur)]

@prune998

What I understand is that the HubAction does NOT support https ? It also seem you don’t handle a login/password ?

Good question! I’ve not looked at this as my InfluxDB instance in on my local LAN and I’ve not needed to lock down writing data to the HTTP API by using logins or HTTPS. I’ll mark this as something to look at in the future though, I suspect HubAction should be able to use basic authentication, but perhaps not OAUTH or SSL (?)

@prune998

Also, if I understand well, things work this way :

device update it’s metrics -> hub – internet –> ST server SmartApp executor – internet –> hub –> HubAction – http –> influxdb server.

While this enables a local call to Influxdb, there is a round trip added (and again, loss of https).Maybe an improvement would be to offer (from the config file) the choice to go local (http) or remote (https + auth) ?

Very good point. I haven’t noticed any performance issues due to the round trip, but having the options for both methods is a good idea. You can see in the code I left the httpPost method in the comments.

Even better would be if SmartThings pulled their finger out and enabled local execution on the hub for SmartApps!

@prune998

I also like the “groupname” you add, but having to define it in the smartapp itself is a pain ! Have you consider asking ST support about that ? Or ask here in the forum within an explicit post ?

Yes, already discussed here: Accessing group within a SmartApp

Z.