Parsing Samsung Printer REST API

runningman84 · August 8, 2017, 8:38pm

Samsung Printers provide a REST API which is used by its own web interface. You can reach it at

http://IPADDRESS/sws/app/information/home/home.json

This is the sample output:

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https://gist.github.com/runningman84/3cb515f405998c9dd980c97168f83b01

gistfile1.txt

{
	status: {
	hrDeviceStatus: 2,
	status1: "  Sleeping...   ",
	status2: "                ",
	status3: "",
	status4: ""
	},
	identity: {
	model_name: "M2070 Series",

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How can we integrate this in home assistant? You cannot parse it a json because it is missing quotes for the keys.

fabaff · August 9, 2017, 6:08am

Let Samsung fix it first then it would be easy. My guess is that’s a common issue as the C410w here is shipping the same garbage.

runningman84 · August 9, 2017, 3:34pm

I think it is not Samsung’s fault because the api it just build for their own js based gui.
There seem to be some solutions:

We would just need some value as yaml helper.

nielstron · August 13, 2020, 10:05am

You can use the demjson package which allows for non-strict JSON parsing. Note that this is now already included in the module syncthru. However, there seem to be some bugs remaining, so feel free to take part in development there