Similar to how we can control devices using the REST API which hass exposes, it would be a good if appdeamon similarly had an API which could possibly allow us to execute apps remotely.
I want to use the scheduling options which appdaemon exposes through a rest API, is there already a way to do it?
I’ve thought about it but never had a reason to do it. What is on the other ne of the rest API?
It’s probably possible to use HASSs API to fire a custom event and have AppDaemon react to that.
You could run a separate instance of appdaemon on the remote machine, rather than talking to one appdaemon instance.
I want to trigger things remotely not run the apps remotely
Based on @aimc’s suggestion, I came up with the following to dynamically schedule callbacks
import requests
class Scheduler(appapi.AppDaemon):
def initialize(self):
self.log("Hello from AppDaemon Scheduler")
self.listen_event(self.add_schedule,"schedule")
def add_schedule(self, event_name, data, kwargs):
self.log("{}".format(data))
def execute(*args,**kwargs):
self.call_service("{}/{}".format(data['domain'],data['service']),entity_id=data['entity_id'])
self.sched_handle=self.run_in(execute,data['delay'])
The event is schedule and payload looks something like this:
{"domain":"homeassistant","service":"turn_off","entity_id":"switch.fan","delay":2}
Cool! Pretty much exactly what I was thinking 
OK, just to revisit this -Today I decided to add Alexa support to AppDaemon and as a result decided I would add generic REST support rather than making this specific to Amazon, so long story short, I have a reason to add a REST API finally, will be in the next release.