iOS shortcut support to trigger a program

[peterathans]

After reading a similar thread, I've become interested in using the iOS Shortcuts support to trigger a REST command and run a program (or a Then or Else).

I was able to trigger the program from a Chrome tab using the simple command

http://192.168.160.31:8080/rest/programs/0009/runThen

But making a shortcut for Get contents of and using the same command as above (and with a GET method), nothing happens.

Possibly it's because the first time I ran this in Chrome I was prompted for a username and password, but on the iPhone I didn't get challenged.

Probably a simple answer to this, but hard to find a solution online.  Any help would be appreciated!

[Guy Lavoie]

You can encode the username and password into the http GET string, like this:

http://admin:<password>@192.168.160.31:8080/rest/programs/0009/runThen

replace <password> with the actual password

[Guy Lavoie]

If you can construct multiline URLs, the better way is to encode the username and password as a base 64 value, and include it as a parameter. Browsers do this internally. It looks like this:

GET /rest/programs/0009/runThen HTTP/1.0
Host: 192.168.160.31:8080
Authorization: YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=

 

That authorization value is the result of encoding "admin:admin"

You can encode your own userid:password here

https://www.base64encode.net/

[maxnorth]

See the screenshot. This updates the value of a variable.  Slightly different than the "run" command you want, but the principles are the same. The last bit is the trickiest. Add a header, type "Authorization" and then type "Basic" and then add your encoded password by inserting the variable.

 

[wrj0]

@maxnorth  Many thanks for providing this shortcut; something I'd really like to get it to work for me.

I've implemented the shortcut on my iPhone as shown in your screenshot.  It seems that I have the Authorization set correctly, since if I change my portal username or password by 1 character in the Userpw key, the shortcut returns: "user authorization not valid."  With the correct portal username and password the shortcut returns: "Requested ISY not found in the user's domain." 

I've compared the BaseURL encoded value generated by the shortcut and it is identical to that provided by https://www.base64encode.net/  using the format myportalusername:myportalpassword

I do have two devices configured in the portal, an eisy and a Polisy.  How do I specify the desired device in the shortcut BaseURL dictionary key?   My entry for that key is:  https://my.isy.io/isy/  

[wrj0]

Figured it out.  The BaseURL to specify the device is:

BaseURL https://my.isy.io/isy/longkeyfromtheportal/   

Shortcut works after adding the long portal key for the specific device to the BaseURL.  Thanks again @maxnorth for the shortcut.

 

[maxnorth]

I’m glad it is working for you.

[peterathans]

Thanks for the help, got it working!

Edited October 7, 2024 by peterathans