brad77 Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Ok. Before anyone thinks that I'm crazy for asking, let me describe my situation. A couple of days ago, our house experienced a temporary power outage. As a result, my ISY was acting funky. Some INSTEON devices were not responding to commands. I was not at home, and didn't have access to the admin console. I did, however, have access to the mobile web page. It would have been handy at the time if I had the ability to fire off a program that would have rebooted my ISY. Looking at the program builder in the admin console, that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm assuming that there is no straightforward way to do this. I do have the network module, however. Is it possible for me to send a request to my ISY's HTTP interface that requests a reboot? Thanks for humoring my request!
Michel Kohanim Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Hi brad77, Since rebooting may cause other problems (which cannot be detected via HTML), we really wish to we really do not want to expose it in HTML or Programs (one may create a program that keeps rebooting ISY in an infinite loop). My main question is: did you have access to any web browser above and beyond your mobile phone? With kind regards, Michel Ok. Before anyone thinks that I'm crazy for asking, let me describe my situation. A couple of days ago, our house experienced a temporary power outage. As a result, my ISY was acting funky. Some INSTEON devices were not responding to commands. I was not at home, and didn't have access to the admin console. I did, however, have access to the mobile web page. It would have been handy at the time if I had the ability to fire off a program that would have rebooted my ISY. Looking at the program builder in the admin console, that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm assuming that there is no straightforward way to do this. I do have the network module, however. Is it possible for me to send a request to my ISY's HTTP interface that requests a reboot? Thanks for humoring my request!
brad77 Posted October 13, 2009 Author Posted October 13, 2009 Thanks for your response. I did not have access to any other browser at the time or I would have used the Java Administrative Console to reboot the device. I understand your trepidation with regards to programmatically rebooting the device. A reboot loop would be a nasty thing to have on your hands! My intent would be to create a program with no IF conditions (to prevent it from firing) that could be run on-demand from the any web interface. I suppose another option would be to enable a REST command to initiate a reboot. I could bookmark it in my phone for just such an occasion. While I get where you're coming from, it would sure be nice to have a big red button to kick things in the head if something were to happen while on vacation.
Michel Kohanim Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Hi brad77, You are correct ... let me think what would be the best way to provide this functionality without undermining too much security. With kind regards, Michel
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