toggle button from shell

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Hey folks,

i want to toggle a pimatic-button via shell script.

Any ideas how to do this?

Regards,
n3ro

@n3ro
Would suggest a curl command with an api call.

@n3ro

create a sh with

sudo nano switch.sh

insert

#!/bin/sh
## swich on ##

curl http://<user>:<password>@<ip>/api/device/<buttonname>/turnOn >> /dev/null

…to turn the button on

or

#!/bin/sh
## swich off ##

curl http://<user>:<password>@<ip>/api/device/<buttonname>/turnOff >> /dev/null

…to turn the button off

or change the switch-state from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 dependend on the currently state you are.

#!/bin/sh
## toggle ##

curl http://<user>:<password>@<ip>/api/device/<buttonname>/toggle >> /dev/null

@xCite86

perfect this works!

THX

The api supports also “toggle”

Nice to know, but where can I find this in the docu?

nowhere only insiders know that… lol

you will found only a few http-api-things here: https://pimatic.org/guide/api/ and here: https://pimatic.org/api/actions/

perhaps it makes sense to add a curl-api-schema like the example above to the api guide

Or an nice API How-To.

Eventually some one with good API experience can write it. @leader21

I think updating the doku under https://pimatic.org/guide/api/ would be best.

@Icesory said:

Or an nice API How-To.

Eventually some one with good API experience can write it. @leader21

would have don e it already if i had the neccesary knowledge sorry, api things are beyond me.
but @slix has very good knowledge and did a good job in api things with his pimatic-to-kodi addon. maybe he has some spare time for writing some basics about howto use the api?

sure, I ccan do that
Had something similiar in mind, but did not know this was appreciated

Would start with some basics next week!

@SLiX said:

Would start with some basics next week!

sounds great, thanks