[solved]Push Data to Dummy Devices

Guest

Hello Guys,

are there a way to push data to pimatic to a dummy device like battery powered devices?

At the moment a raspberry pi with webserver give out a temperature value. Pimatic check it and get value. Now i will switch it, that raspberry pi send this value to pimatic that i dont need running webserver on my pi.

How can i do this? Via API? But what device i must create?

Thanks for your help!

thex

https://pimatic.org/guide/api/

Yes you can use the API and I guess the device would be a VariableDevice.

Guest

Ah ok thanks. Is there any tutorial how explains to create a variable device?

thex

Just add a new Variable and a VariablesDevice via the web frontend. The fields should be quite self-explanatory

Guest

Try this:

$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json'); $data = "{'Aquatemp60': '".$temp."'}"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); $out = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch);
get this:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ' at Object.parse (native) at parse (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:88:17) at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:116:18 at invokeCallback (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:262:16) at done (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:251:7) at IncomingMessage.onEnd (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:307:7) at emitNone (events.js:67:13) at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:913:12) at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9) at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:397:17)
What do i wrong?

Guest

found issue at data line:

$data = '{"type": "value","valueOrExpression": "'.$temp.'"}';

Nice works!

Stokstaart

Please take a look at my Synology script. I have it running on my ReadyNas as well so it should be easy to reverse engineer it!

As long as you are able to call bash on your pi you’re good to go!

Guest

Thank you very much! I do it via php and it’s working also. Your idea to get data from NAS is awesome! I will try it to use this script with my qnap. Thanks for sharing!