Activate GPIO pin on remote webiopi RPI

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Hi all,

noob here
any chance I can get a for dummies walk through to toggle the state of a GPIO on a remote webiopi garage door remote. I found the BCM GPIO I want to toggle on the remote webiopi just need some help making the config yaml work, then send the commands to toggle.

Wade

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Have you considered the Restful switch of home assistant (https://home-assistant.io/components/switch.rest/)?

You just do post calls to your webiopi, e.g.

switch:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS/GPIO/25/value/1
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Thank you so much, that is what I have been looking for - give me 5 and will test that.

W

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does this look correct?

Garage Door Switch

switch:
platform: rest
resource: http://192.168.0.206:8000/GPIO/18/value/1

Where 18 is the GPIO i want to toggle the value of?

Tested this works - well 1/2 of the process - it opens, but does not close

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I have got it working ---- sort of -----

so my garage door is a single button. Press = go up, another press = stop , another press = go down. Simple wifi controlled relay on a RPI, works a treat with web interface.

I want to bring a switch into HA. on MQTT i have to send the command twice, essentially open the relay then close again to get one for the above ‘presses’ to work. 6 cycles if I want to open, stop mid way and then close again. Any ideas how I can send the command of open , then reset the relay?

Thanks

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I know this is an old thread but have you been able to figure this out? What did you end up going with?

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I know this is an old inquiring on an old thread (ha!) but FYI this component doesn’t map to webiopi well. As far as I have gathered webiopi does not use a restAPI in the same manner. You post to a different URL to set the values than you do to get the value. I’m still searching for the best solution. A few just using switch components are possible.