Get Dashio to work with a switch

Configuration
1

Afternoon All,

Hope you’re enjoying your Christmas / Holiday season.

I’m trying to get my dash button to operate a switch I have.

I have Dashiop installed and have tried the following parameters:

{
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Gillette",
      "address": "FC:A6:67:E0:A4:E4",
      "url": "https://MY_SUBDOMAIN.duckdns.org/api/services/switch/on",
      "headers": "{\"x-ha-access\": \"MY_PASSWORD\"}",
      "body": "{\"entity_id\": \"switch.landing_light\"}"
    }
  ]
}

I’m not going to lie this was a stab in the dark based on examples i’ve seen for “lights”.

I’ve tried going through this but to no avail:

2

“switch.”
I would look at the entity_id again.

3

Sorry it does have switch.landing_light on my server.

4

It took me a lot of trial and error. Make sure your hass can connect to the url you supply. I no longer have double presses.

Here is one that works for me:

{"buttons":[
  {
    "name": "Medication Log",
    "address": "18:74:00:00:00:00",
    "url": "https://my_hasio.me.local/api/services/script/turn_on?api$
    "method": "POST",
    "insecure": true,
    "headers": {"x-ha-access": "myPassword"},
    "json": true,
    "protocol": "udp",
    "timeout": "60000",
    "body": {"entity_id": "script.meds_taken"}
  }
]}
5

No joy =/. I even added a script to run my switch to make it as identicle to yours as possible.

I have a static local ip assigned to the pi so have used that to see if that was part of the issue.

Thanks for your input though.

6

Any reason you’re not using the format made available by the latest update which uses Hass.io internal comms…

{
  "buttons": [
  {
    "name": "Gillette",
    "address": "AC:63:BE:77:C4:0D",
    "domain": "group",
    "service": "toggle",
    "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"group.room_lights\"}"
  }]
}
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7

@Bobby_Nobble

I started with that but had no joy either. I have reverted just to test and used this:

{
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Gilette",
      "address": "FC:A6:67:E0:A4:E4",
      "domain": "script",
      "service": "landing_fix",
      "service_data": "{}"
    }
  ]
}

Above based on https://github.com/danimtb/dasshio

I also tried:

{
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Bounty",
      "address": "FC:A6:67:E0:A4:E4",
      "domain": "script",
      "service": "on",
      "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"script.landing_fix\"}"
    }
  ]
}

Again no joy with either. I must be doing something stupid. I’m going to feel like an idiot asking this but other than installing do I need to enable in the configuration.yaml?

8

It’s got to be something else as I even copied what you put and changed it to a group I have (upstairs_lights) with no joy:

{
  "buttons": [
  {
    "name": "Gillette",
    "address": "FC:A6:67:E0:A4:E4",
    "domain": "group",
    "service": "toggle",
    "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"group.upstairs_lights\"}"
  }]
}
9

Right no idea why but after going through all the options one last time this worked (might help someone in the future):

{
  "buttons": [
    {
      "name": "Gillette",
      "address": "FC:A6:67:E0:A4:E4",
      "domain": "switch",
      "service": "turn_on",
      "service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"switch.landing_light\"}"
    }
  ]
}
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10

Hi all,
Sorry for my newbie question. I have a harmony hub and created a script named “Mute_TV”. The script can be executed from Hass Home web. Now I would like to use dasshi to execute this script. I tried like this in the dasshi configuration.

{ "buttons": 
[ { 
"name": "Dash name", 
"address": "Dash MAC", 
"domain": "script", 
"service": "Mute_TV", 
"service_data": "{\"entity_id\": \"remote.my_hub_name\"}" 
}]
 }

When never I press the button, the log show bad request error.
I also tried to leave the" service data" emply but it still the same.
Could you kindly advise how I should do to implement the script?
Many thanks