Variables change by curl-http on other PIMATIC surface

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Hello World,

I’m not so exactly clear about how I feel about a “curl” - execute address and change the variables on another PIMATIC surface command.

Devices are DummyShutter !

But I have already figured out so much that I need to set follow instructions to get to my information / carry it out:

curl -X GET --user "user: password" http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/variables/eltern.position
curl -X PATCH --header "Content-Type: application / json" --data "{" type ":" value "," valueOrExpression ": ???} '--user" user: password "http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/variables/eltern.position=down

here comes the message “Error on incoming http request: Unexpected token d …”

Question now is:

What should I change, in order to change the remote variable? What should be in the question mark?

Would be obliged for help. Thanks.

Hallo Welt,

ich bin mir noch nicht so genau im Klaren, wie ich über einen „curl“ – Befehl die Variablen auf einer anderen PIMATIC Oberfläche ansprechen und verändern kann.

Devices sind alle DummyShutter !

Hab aber schon so viel herausbekommen, das ich folgen Befehle setzen muss, um an meine Informationen zu gelangen / sie auszuführen:

curl -X GET --user "user:password" http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/variables/eltern.position
curl -X PATCH --header "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"type": "value", "valueOrExpression": ???}' --user "user:password" http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/variables/eltern.position=down

hier kommt die Meldung „Error on incoming http request: Unexpected token d …….“

Frage ist jetzt:

Was muss ich wo und wie verändern. Um die entfernte Variable zu verändern? Was muss bei den Fragezeichen stehen?

Wäre für eine Hilfe zum Dank verpflichtet.

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EDIT:
You’re trying to modify an attribute of the DummyShutter device which is not supported as far as I know - see also http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/694/change-device-state-without-executing-action
What you can do is to perform actions on the device. There are various ways of doing this. As “Up” and “Down” do not require parameters you can simply use the following curl command sequences:

curl http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/device/eltern/moveDown --user "user:password"
curl http://192.168.211.143:8083/api/device/eltern/moveUp --user "user:password"

If you want supress output from the curl commands use option --silent and redirect stdout (e.g. place --silent > /dev/null at the end of the command string).
Hope, this helps.