Input_select and curl command line - problem

Configuration
1

Hi all,
I have a problem to set a specific state of input_select, my command looks like:
curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: APIPASS" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \.-d '{"entity_id": "input_select.amplituner_input", "state": "CD"}' \ http://192.168.1.5:8123/api/services/input_select/select_option

but id doesn’t work.

btw. command to set next option works fine:

curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: APIPASS" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \.-d '{"entity_id": "input_select.amplituner_input"}' \ http://192.168.1.5:8123/api/services/input_select/select_next

Please help, i’m sure that something is wrong.

2

You should be using “option” not “state” in your JSON

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3

Ok, so I used this command:
curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: APIPASS" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \.-d '{"entity_id": "input_select.amplituner_input", "option": "CD"}' \ http://192.168.1.5:8123/api/services/input_select/select_option
and… it doesn’t work :frowning:
code of input_select is:

input_select:
  amplituner_input:
    name: amplituner input
    options:
     - Select
     - CD
     - DVD
    initial: Select

I don’t know what is wrong :frowning:

4

Can’t see much wrong with that, would try removing any spaces in the JSON data

5

The data looks the same as from my http shortcuts app, which works successfully every day. What response code are you getting?

6

This is the situation:
Code:

curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: APIPASS" http://localhost:8123/api/services/input_select/select_next

This command works for all input_select and it is ok.

Code:

curl -X POST -H "x-ha-access: APIPASS" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"entity_id": "input_select.amplituner_input", "option": "CD"}' http://192.168.1.5:8123/api/services/input_select/select_option

Response from CMD:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: input_select.amplituner_input,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: option
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 3
{"message": "Data should be valid JSON"}
7

Ok, I figured out this, on Windows it should like to be like: -d “{ “key1”: “value1” }”

8

Windows (command prompt) also requires triple quotes around the JSON items e.g.

"""entity_id""":

Escaping with a \ doesn’t work and neither does turning on globbing (-g).

For Powershell you need to run curl with the —% (dash dash percent) parameter and use \ to escape the quotes :


\"entity_id\":

Excuse the weird quotes. Apple goes their own way.