Send sensor data to Blue Iris macro via Rest?

Configuration
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Okay this started as a question, but I have now figured out a way to do it so I’ll share in case anyone else wants to do the same.
I’m trying to send the value of a sensor from my weather station to Blue Iris to overlay on one of my cameras. This is what I cobbled together.
in configuration.yaml I have:

shell_command:
  temptobi: 'curl "http://192.168.1.105:81/admin?macro=6&text={{ states.sensor.smartweatherudp_temperature.state }}°F"'

and my automation is:

alias: Temp To BI
  trigger:
    minutes: '/15'
    platform: time_pattern
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: shell_command.temptobi

I built it with the automation editor in 93.1 and it didn’t work. Took me quite a while to figure out that you need the / before the 15 for minutes AND I had to remove hours and seconds from the automation.
I could likely remove the condition line as well since there aren’t any here.

Hope someone can learn something from this.
Now it seems to work well.

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I wish I had found this about 4 hours ago. I integrated room temperatures into the overlay macros via files created by pulling info from Home Assistant. Doing it this way is SO MUCH EASIER!

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Well some time has past and many updates have come and gone.
This was working for me up until yesterday when I updated the way I get data from my weather station into home assistant and all of a sudden I was getting error 3 from curl which I guess is a malformed URL.
So after a couple hours trying to figure it all out my curl command now looks like this:

temptobi: curl http://192.168.1.105:81/admin?macro=6&text={{ states("sensor.air_ar_00000005_temperature") }}°F

I don’t know what changed, but this now works again at the end of 2022 so if anyone gets here from a search on curl commands and sending data from sensors out of home assistant then maybe this will help.