Help with Webhooks

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi all,

I am trying to get webhooks working (not IFTTT webhooks) for use with my Flic buttons as they can send webhooks, but I am not having much luck.
I am trying to run the following:

- alias: 'Disarm with Flic'
  id: 80830b6e-2732-4a79-8620-ec4fb603caa8
  trigger:
    platform: webhook
    webhook_id: 7a6fd82d2bf6432c80061680e4c7deb1
    
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: group.family
      state: 'home'
    - condition: state
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.aarlo_s_a_r_a_h
      state: 'armed_away'

  action:
    - service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_home
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.aarlo_house
    - service: notify.notify
      data:
        title: "House"
        message: "Alarm Stayed with Flic."

I have the following on the Flic configuration:

Type: POST
URL: Give yourself a better website » MY DOMAIN
Headers: blank (should they be?)
Body: { “action”: “trigger” }
Content-Type: x-www-form-urlencoded
Timeout: 10
I’ve turned off Validating certifcates

The button is firing, but not seeing any end result in HA. I’ve followed the documentation but I am at a loss.Though I admit I do not know where the files this section is talking about is:

The payload is available in an automation template as either trigger.json or trigger.data

Any help would be really appreciated :slight_smile:

2

Content-Type is a header, so I don’t think it matters that Headers are blank.

I notice you’re mixing types though. You’re sending JSON as your body, but you are telling HA that it is receiving x-www-form-urlencoded. Try set Content-Type to application/json and try again.

Also, whenever you deal with APIs, it’s highly recommended to break the problem into the receiving and sending side. Having separate systems play nice can be a real pain.

As mentioned in the guide you posted, run:

curl -d "" https://my-domain.com/api/webhook/7a6fd82d2bf6432c80061680e4c7deb1

And see if your webhook trigger works.

I assume that’s for you to use in your action mate. You can extract the body you are sending:

{ “action”: “trigger” }
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I’ve run the curl command, and nothing, I dont get any errors in curl, minus the SSL errors which I disabled.
But nothing happens in Home Assistant, the trigger just doesn’t seem to fire.

I’ve also tried in Postman, and get a 200 Ok response, but nothing in HA.

4

Scrub that, its working, seems to just lag with the notifications coming through.

5

So the entire flow is working or just the curl request?

6

Entire flow appears to be working, I did also turn on the API, so not sure if that has made a difference?!

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