Changing state of light

Configuration
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Dear community,

I’m working on getting my home assisant work with curl-scripts. I want to POST a JSON-string where I can turn my light on. I use the following line in a bash file:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer ABCDEF" -H "content-type: application/json" -d " {\"state\": \"on\"}" http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8123/api/states/switch.light_tl

In the home assisstant you can actually see the script is working (the slider turns on) but when I execute the script the light won’t turn on. Is there something wrong with my curl command?

Thanks for the help in advance,

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If you want to use Home Assistant’s REST API to turn on a light then you need to use a service call (services/switch/turn_on). What you are doing is setting the switch’s state which is not the same thing.

The relevant section of the documentation is here

Example:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer ABCDEFGH" \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       -d '{"entity_id": "switch.light_tl"}' \
       http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8123/api/services/switch/turn_on