Shell commands. How?

[HA-Utrecht35 (Utrecht)]

I am trying to get a shell script to work, but all I find is posts and articles with, what it seems, outdated information. I have this shell script file ‘curtains-close.sh’ that works from other non-home assistant systems. I added this to the folder homeassistant/bash:

#!/bin/bash
curl -v -X PUT \
    --header 'content-type: application/json' \

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: XXXXXcca576890c9ec04b9b865cbb7338942d0860067fab283127875dafec100XXXXX2230b86aa3d229d9e4c5" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf8" https://api.switch-bot.com/v1.0/scenes/T02-202011061031-12121212/execute

in the configuration.yaml I added:

shell_command:
  curtains_close: "homeassistant/bash/curtains_close.sh"

But I cant seem to get this script in an automation. A lot of posts and articles talk about adding a call to service, but that’s no longer there in the current HA version. I can perform a action, but there doesn’t seem a way to add this script. Also the information about shell script of HA seems to be quite outdated.

Am I missing something? Does anyone has a clear step-be-step info how to add and run shell scripts?

[vingerha]

I believe the HA doc is pretty clear to me
Aside this, rethink if you want to use the REST integration or sensor instead

[nickrout]

Service has been replaced by action.

In the action part of your automation you need

actions:
  - action: shell_command.curtains_close

Use the developer tools to test it. It will tell you the stdout, stderr and returncode.

[JerryM]

What does
chmod +x /path/to/homeassistant/bash/curtains-close.sh
in the host terminal do?

What does this do in automations

    condition: []
    action:
        - action: shell_command.curtains_close
    mode: single

Personally I have this working

@JerryM

configuration.yaml for sending HTTP with curl using host shell

input_number:
  kinect_tilt_angle:
    name: Kinect Tilt Angle
    min: -30
    max: 30
    step: 15

shell_command:
  set_kinect_tilt: 'curl -X GET "http://kinect motion host:8000/tilt?angle={{ angle }}"'

Automation to update shell_command with input number

alias: tilt
description: Send tilt angle to Kinect when slider changes
triggers:
  - entity_id:
      - input_number.kinect_tilt_angle
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - data:
      angle: "{{ states('input_number.kinect_tilt_angle') | int }}"
    action: shell_command.set_kinect_tilt
mode: single

Sending url with button on the dashboard

Hello everybody, I am new on this forum and homeasstant. I can’t figure out how to send a url from a button on the dashboard. I want to send something like http://192.168.X.X/LED1=ON. Can somebody help me ?? greetings Han

[nickrout]

I must say that your command line may be wrong. What is the full path of the command?