Use IFTTT Maker

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Hello,
I want to use the IF THIS THAN THAT service with the “Maker” plugin. So you can send an URL to trigger ITTT to do something.

I want to send this:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"value1":"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature","value2":"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity","value3":"$syssensor.diskusage"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rgo

When I try to make a rule I don’t get it… I became allways an Error Message.

I have try it like this:

execute "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rgo"

Can someboby help me to debug the command?

Thanks Andre

hey andre!
guess it would be good to know what error message you are receiving.
could you please tell us?

Here is the Error Message:

Could not find an provider that provides the next action
of "execute "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\"
 -d '{"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":
\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\
"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rg"".

don’t know if this is the solution but i see is that you forgot to escape a " in front of value1.
so this should be the command with the escaped character

execute "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rgo"

the next thing, do you have the shell-execute plugin installed ?
if not, shell commands won’t work within rules.

@leader21

yes I have installed the shell-execute plugin.

I have tried it with the \" in front of value1 too it cames the same error message but the autofill funktion in the rule editor don’t work. Means when I type “$temp” that there open a window where I can choose “$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature”.

Ok, I have found out that Pimatic don’t like this Part of the rule:

'{\"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"}'

This works for Pimatik but not for ITTT:

'{$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature}'

In this post @defser use a similar curl command in the config.

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I don’t have found a solution for my problem. I see this treat and tested this:

{
      "id": "ifttt-test",
      "name": "IFTTT Test",
      "class": "ShellSensor",
      "attributeName": "ifttt",
      "attributeType": "string",
      "discrete": true,
      "attributeUnit": "",
      "command": "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rgo",
      "interval": 36000
    },

This sends every minute a mail but first I don’t want a mail every minute I want tu use a rule.
And second it don’t sent the values of the sensors it sends:

$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature
$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity
$syssensor.diskusage

Is there an other way to make an device who can send a curl command and the values of the sensors what I can run with a rule?

As far as I know you need to escape the curly brackets { } as well in a rule.
So your “Pimatic don’t like this Part of the rule” rule should possibly be:

'\{\"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$tempwohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"\}'

@Harry-van-der-Wolf
You are my hero, after 2 month the rule WORKS!!!

There is now only a small problem, there comes now every time this error:

error [pimatic-shell-execute]: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 138 100 48 100 90 69 129 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 196 

To change this I have to add

> /dev/null 2>&1 

So the rule looks so now:

execute "curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '\{\"value1\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.temperature\",\"value2\":\"$temp-wohnzimmer.humidity\",\"value3\":\"$syssensor.diskusage\"\}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/Testmail/with/key/ce3Ea7L1Rgo  > /dev/null 2>&1"

Thanks an everybody for her help!!!

@V1per said:

There is now only a small problem, there comes now every time this error:

error [pimatic-shell-execute]: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 138 100 48 100 90 69 129 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 196 

No, it is better to use the --silent option in your curl command as it will suppress the statistics, like

"curl -X POST --silent <and the rest>

@Harry-van-der-Wolf

The --silent switch don’t work. It comes this error:

error [pimatic-shell-execute]: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'Content-Type' % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 91 0 0 100 91 0 89 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 104 100 139 100 48 100 91 37 70 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 79 

what about
curl -sX POST ...
the silent option can be set with -s, could be worth a try

@leader21
Yes this works!