How to make a switch that sends command to a web interface

Configuration
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I apologise in advance if this seems trivial. I have spent several days trying to solve this problem, and I have read various Home Assistant help documents. I have only been using Home Assistant for a week or so, and I have no programming experience.

What I am looking to do is to switch on relays which have a web server built in. I can do this easily by typing into the address bar of Google Chrome eg
if I type xxxx://192.168.1.4/30000/01 it will switch relay1 on
if I type xxxx://192.168.1.4/30000/00 it will switch relay1 off.

(hopefully you can guess what xxxx is - the forum didn’t like me typing it there as I’m a new member)

I have tried writing command line instructions (based on Home Assistant documentation examples), I have tried using telnet similarly - both in the configuration YAML, and I also tried to get a template working. All unsuccessful.

I think I need to put something like this into the configuration YAML:

switch:

but a) I can’t find the switch anywhere to add to the Home Assistant display and b) I don’t think it works. I wondered whether I should be using a template or using a shell commmand, but most of this stuff is beyond my knowledge at the moment. Would be great to be able to get something to work then I could experiment and improve it, but I’m not even off first base!

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That is an outdated format that is no longer valid. Please see the example lower down on this page:

configurration.yaml

command_line:
  - switch:
      name: Relay switch
      command_on: "curl -k 'http://192.168.1.4/30000/01'"
      command_off: "curl -k 'http://192.168.1.4/30000/00'"

Also in future please format your pasted config correctly for the forum. See https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-help-us-help-you-or-how-to-ask-a-good-question/114371#oneone-format-it-properly-16 or https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-format-your-code-in-forum-posts/702762

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Thankyou - all working now!