The webserver on your ESP8266 would need to be able to accept an additional parameter to invoke the command you want. Or it would need to provide alternate endpoints - one for open, and one for close. Right now it’s just displaying a simple web page with buttons, expecting the user to press one of them from a browser. The web page is in fact being returned to webrequestor, thus the text you see in the response data field. So you know it’s working, but it’s returning a web page which you really can’t do anything with in webrequestor.
Is it possible your webserver accepts something like this?
In another thread, Graham suggested this thread to possibly solve my problem with Photon Particle and smartthings (ST). I made a device that uses a Particle to drive a servo that opens a remote HVAC vent in my garage. It used to show up as either on or off in ST. Now it only shows “connected” in ST and will not control the device. The driver is now shown as “LAN Thing” and I used ti have it set up with a handler in the old ST. It worked for 2 years flawlessly. unfortunately I am not very knowledgeable about how the various software components work together so cannot determine if your driver is a good solution path for my issues. Searched Particle Photon and edge drivers and came up empty handed. Any help is greatly appreciated as the HVAC device I designed was an awesome help in my garage and is now basically useless.
For Alexa integration, you’ll need to do it through the creation of some automations, since you won’t be able to control webrequestor directly from Alexa. One way to do it is to create a virtual switch that you can control via Alexa. Then create a couple automation routines: one to execute the specific webrequest for open when the switch is ‘on’, and one to execute the specific webrequest for close when the switch is ‘off’. You’ll find that when you define actions in automation routines for a webrequestor device, you’ll be able to choose which ‘slot’ number to execute. The downside of this setup is having to use the terms ‘on’ and ‘off’ with Alexa instead of ‘open’ or ‘close’. There might an alternative to this with using a virtual blind device to address that, which I think can be controlled from Alexa.
A more stream-lined way to do the automations would to use Rules, where you can actually specify the webrequest itself within the rule. See the readme file for more info and an example.
That’s usually because something is wrong with the format of the request string. Double check it for correct syntax or post screenshot here so I can take a look.
I think Andriod app is showing things slightly different from what I see in my iOS-based app. Can you check the extra fields you aren’t using like Body, More Body, and Headers for both request #1 and #2, and make sure they contain ‘–’ (double dashes)? I’m seeing “Custom trigger=” in your body field - is that something you typed?
I don’t have a Yamaha receiver and don’t author any drivers. I was suggesting that the person who wrote Rules to use with this driver to control their Yamaha amp publish those Rules for others to use.
Hi - a have installed the Web Requestor and it appears to be working OK with my SmartThings hub. I am trying to replace a SharpTools routine to play a sound file on a tablet running ActionTiles. The SharpTools string is:
Arguement 1: playSound
Arguement 2: {“url”:“file:///sdcard/download/rooster.mp3”}
I assume I would need to use a web Requestor POST command but how do I structure the URL? The IP is http://192.168.1.xxx:2423
You may need to do a bit more digging to find the expected HTML request format, as that doesn’t really tell you anything specific. You need to know how those two arguments are expected. Typically they are going to either provided as arguments in the HTML request something like this:
I have tried several combinations of the above suggestions by Todd to get my Fully Kiosk Browser driven tablets to play a sound. All without luck. Once again this works ok with SharpTools (and webCore before that) so I know that the tablet is configured correctly.
I have also tried it with https and without the password. Has anyone here managed to get the Web Requestor Post command to work with Fully to play a sound? Or the Post command to execute any Fully Kiosk Browser command like to turn the screen on?
