RESTful Switch

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I have two HA locations, one local and the other over VPN. I would like to control and monitor all the entities from one instance of HA. It seems like to Master-Slave connection is not working or there is not a decent enough tutorial for me to make it run properly. I would like to use REST to control the entities in the remote instance and get their state.

Can someone help me get this working and reporting correctly?

For example I am trying to control a light so I imagine that I will need this…

  - platform: rest
    resource:
    body_on:
    body_off:
    is_on_template:

The entity_id is: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0

I have had some success running commands from the examples below in terminal but just cant seem to put it all together.

Any help is appreciated!!

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Here’s some info to help you determine the URLs for HASS service calls.

tl;dr: use HASS’ services dev tool and watch URLs in your browser’s dev tool (network)

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Thanks @ih8gates I will check it out!

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I can make it work through the dev tool but not as a component.

This is what I have now but I have tried several variations.

  - platform: rest
    resource: http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/services/light/
    name: Kitchen
    body_on: turn_on/ {"entity_id": "light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    body_off: turn_off/ {"entity_id": "light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    is_on_template:

This is the error I get.

17-01-20 11:05:17 ERROR (Thread-1) [homeassistant.util.yaml] mapping values are not allowed here

Thanks!

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OK. I’m not really sure what you’re trying to achieve here. There’s no need to use the rest platform to turn on/off lights.

- service: light.turn_on
  entity_id: light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0

But this bulb should already have an on/off in the UI.

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Thanks for staying with me on this…

The bulb is on a remote instance of HA. It is connected through VPN. I would like to add a component to the local instance of HA that controls and gets the state of the bulb connected to the remote instance.

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I don’t use REST, so I’m reading the docs…Looks like you only want the JSON in body_on and body_off.

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Ok Cool! Where do I use the JSON to identify the entity I want to control?

Does this look right or is the a ? after turn_on?

http://192.168.20.58:8123/api/services/light/turn_on {"entity_id":"light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}

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This part is the JSON. The entity_id value is what you wanna control.

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Yes sir this I understand.

I am having trouble putting this info in to the Restful switch component.

Maybe using a command line switch would be better?

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@ih8gates

I got it working using the command line switch now I am working on getting the state from the bulb on the remote instance of HA. The state command below returns all attributes including the state. Is there a way to just get the state or extract the state using a value template?

  mckitchen:
    command_on: /usr/bin/curl -X POST http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/services/light/turn_on?{"entity_id":"light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    command_off: /usr/bin/curl -X POST http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/services/light/turn_off?{"entity_id":"light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    command_state: /usr/bin/curl -X GET http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/states/light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0

The command_state returns:

{"attributes": {"brightness": 255.0, "friendly_name": "Linear LB60Z-1 Dimmable LED Light Bulb Level", "node_id": 3, "supported_features": 19}, "entity_id": "light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0", "last_changed": "2017-01-21T14:36:49.806167+00:00", "last_updated": "2017-01-21T14:37:30.249645+00:00", "state": "on"}

As you can see the state is the last item.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

#10 Minutes Later…

I think I got it!!

  mckitchen:
    command_on: /usr/bin/curl -X POST http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/services/light/turn_on?{"entity_id":"light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    command_off: /usr/bin/curl -X POST http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/services/light/turn_off?{"entity_id":"light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0"}
    command_state: /usr/bin/curl -X GET http://192.168.50.58:8123/api/states/light.linear_lb60z1_dimmable_led_light_bulb_level_3_0
    value_template: '{{ value_json.state == "on" }}'
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