esp8266 as doorsensor

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Hi, I really have had it with RF 433 Mhz., I just installed my 3rd receiver (yes the right one) and still the reception is poor (now max. 8 meters without walls). I have tried a lot, I don’t believe anymore in a ood solution.

So now I want to make my own wifi doorsensors with the esp8266. Thats easy to realise also very cheap. Te range is also very good.

Now my question is this. Thera are already sensors supported by Pimatic with the esp8288. But thats for themperature and other analoge signals. I just want to detect “open” and “closed”.
So what do I have to send to Pimatic to change for example a ShellPresenceSensor from “false” to “true”.
Can I do that with API’s, mayby like http://192.168.0.x/api/device/IpCamOpnameDot/changePresenceTofalse? (does not work)…

Thanks in advance

@lschip As far as I know the “changePresenceTo” action is only supported by the DummyPresenceSensor! The ShellPresenceSensor does not implement it for sure.

So, give it a try using the DummyPresenceSensor. This should work as expected.

I also tried the DummyPresenceSensor to but 192.x.x.x/api/device/IpcamOpnamepresencesensor/changePresenceTotrue or changePresenceTot1 doesn’t work.
Do I do this wrong?

192.x.x.x/api/device/IpcamOpnamepresencesensor/changePresenceTo?presence=true

@lschip http://<HOST>/api/device/IpcamOpnamepresencesensor/changePresenceTo?presence=true

That does the trick, thanks.