garybixler

-Xathros I have found out from wireless tag that the logon to the tag manager requires a cookie and won't accept the basic authorization header. This was the response from wireless tag: "Just call the signin API and get the cookie and attach that cookie to ping method. Any browser will automatically do this you just need to find how to support cookie from ISY." Checking the forum I found that the ISY does not support cookies. It seems that logins always foil my attempts to automate across platforms. So much for open architecture. Not even sure why login would be necessary for local requests to the tag manager as no ports are open to the tag manager from the outside anyway. However the system does have great potential for tracking vehicles. A tag in the vehicle could be powered with larger parallel 3V batteries to greatly extent the battery life or even power it from the car battery. Sensing the vehicle is gone takes about 3 min if Auto-Update is set for 1 min. That amount of time is fine. The issue that I have is that it doesn't sense the return of the vehicle for maybe 15 min. even though the search time is set for 5 min. That it why I was hoping the ISY could reduce that time to seconds and execute immediate actions. So I guess I will continue in this direction and hope that something can be worked out between the tag manager and the ISY in the near future. Gary

Thanks for your help. I'll be doing a lot of trial and error today, but not much hope that I'll get this request to work. I'll reply if a success or not. Gary

Thanks -Xathros I hadn't seen that before but now where to add it. After Post, Host:, User-Agent: or Connection-Type?

The rest part does work. When I test the API from the ISY I get 'TCP client read response failed' (Net Module rule 67) They also state that the ping and other commands require a login. When trying to do that from the ISY I just get 'Request Failed' So this is about as far as I can go with this not knowing if responses are necessary or not. Thanks

I am thinking that the ping request goes to the tag manager that actually does the ping but I have no idea if any conversation is required beyond that. My only reply is that the tag is back in range via rest to the ISY.

Hi I was wondering if anyone has been able to ping a wireless tag on the wireless tag system using the ISY network module? http://wirelesstag.net/ I have copied their API into the ISY for doing that but it may be hung up on expecting a login which I haven't been able to get to work either. As their sensing a previously out of range tag may take a long time I would like to do a ping using the ISY to considerably reduce that time. Basically I would like to do a ping on missing tags (restoring in range and sending a rest command to the ISY) that are located in vehicles when the driveway sensor is tripped thus immediately being able to respond with some actions. Thanks Gary

Hi Bill Your custom behavior is correct except there should be a space between 66 and 1 in your nodes. This would be a GET command which is the default. Also it probably would not be a good idea to use port 80 as your router may assume it is for him. I use port 5010 and you would need to forward that through the router to your ISY's local address. And also configure the ISY to reflect that port as well or translate port 5010 to 80 in the router if you want to keep 80 as your ISY port.

Hi Bill Yes you can have the Ubi send HTTP Rest commands to the ISY to control your Insteon and other devices. Here is an example for turning a light on. (http://user:pass@your Internet address:port/rest/nodes/1F F7 5C 1/cmd/DON) At this time you would need to enter your Internet ISP address and port number to the ISY as the Ubi doesn't do local HTTP but may in the future. Gary

Hi Michel Super good news. Thanks Gary

Hi I was hoping to be able to ping small WiFi modules located in vehicles to determine their presence or absence. It would require being able to receive the response. Thanks

Hi Just wondering if there will be any ping capability in the network module at anytime. thanks Gary

Hi Things that I know for now. The HTTP requests come from their servers and need to be set up as if the request is coming from outside your local network. However I have not been able to send a REST command this way either. They are saying that they hope to allow the Ubi to make local requests in the near future. Also APIs should be coming out in several weeks that would allow requests to be sent directly to the Ubi like text to voice.

After setting up it using the Ubi portal any further configuration is done through the portal and then downloaded to the Ubi. Your contacts are entered at the portal and then downloaded. Custom Behaviors are configured there and then downloaded. At the moment I don't think the USB port is used for anything. It is WiFi based. It is Android Jelly Bean 4.1

Just general thinks like asking about the weather, play music, etc. I tried the send message and voice response on the customizing service but they don't seem to work either.

I think the problem my be with the Ubi's Custom Behaviors as none of the other functions work either. My have to wait for an update before trying further. I do hope the user password will work with the Ubi. Thanks for all the effort Gary

No luck with Ubi. After giving the command I don't get any response. Maybe it encounters an error.

Good news. I was using the latest IE browser (11) where it didn't work. Tried it on Firefox and it worked fine.

Ok, set it back to 80 at the browser and I still get the windows message.

Yes the command failed when using the user and password in the browser. This is the command. (http://myusername:mypassword@192.168.20 ... t/nodes/17 F7 F0 1/cmd/DON) I get the message "windows cannot find" What ever I change in the portal is down loaded to the Ubi. So all would be local.

Thanks Lee I do have that included. It works fine on the browser but not in the Ubi . Nothing appears on the log if I try using the Ubi.

Thanks all for your help. I am able to send the REST commands via a browser but haven't had any luck so far using the Ubi. I assume the login is the problem. I did try (http://isyusername:isypassword@/rest/nodes/11%2022%2033/cmd/DON) but on the browser I just get cannot find the URL. I assume the Ubi would have the same problem. If there is a way to logon using REST then a voice command could be set up to do that assuming it would stay logged on and not time out. Any help with the logon would be greatly appreciated. Xathros, I believe they are hoping to ship all the Ubis before the holidays. Thanks again for all the help. Gary

Thanks hbsh01 I did see where an HTTP post can be entered into the Ubi. As I know little about REST I was wondering if you could supply a simple example of what the command would look like and what I would need to do at the ISY to turn on an Insteon device. I tried searching but didn't find any clear examples. I do have the network module. Thanks very much. Gary

Hi Just received my first Ubi and would really like to be able to voice commands to the ISY and receive responses. I would think that their API's are now available so I was wondering if there is still interest in interfacing with this product to give the ISY a voice. UBI (http://theubi.com/) Thanks Gary

Xathros Thanks for all you help. I downloaded a drag and drop web editor and put my first published web page up on the ISY. All seems to work well. Yes I will be interested in using JaveScripts and Java apps at some point in the future. Again thanks Gary

Thanks -Xathros I assume Java is acceptable to use? Any suggestions on an editor, maybe one that is drag and drop to built pages? Gary