I'm really happy with the automated functions programmed into isy, but I don't like having to manually intervene.

 

For example I have a "vacation mode" variable that I change from a value of 0 to 1 to invoke automatic light timers throughout the house. What I'd really like to do is change this value by running a command from an external program such as mControl.

 

I've made some progress with mControl and would like to explore the possibilities. I hope I am not offending the isy community by trying to use mControl as a GUI for isy.

Have you looked into REST. Should be able to use a REST command set the Variable.

I was afraid someone would say that. Is there a good link on using rest in this forrum ?

Follow this link to document that covers REST ..

 

http://www.universal-devices.com/develo ... Manual.pdf

Okay I see the generic command line I need:

 

/rest/vars/set///

 

In my case = 2, = Vacation.Mode, = 1

 

Now what is the syntax to send to the isy99i device = 192.168.0.xxx

with user = admin

and password = pass

 

http://admin:pass@192.168.0.xxx ?

I can cover part of the question.

 

http://92.168.2.2/rest/vars/set/2/1/16

 

Sets "State" Variable with ID "1" to a value of "16". The variable ID is displayed to the left of the variable name in the Variables tab.

Well I gave it my best shot:

 

http://admin:pass@192.168.0.xxx:90xx/re ... ion.Mode/1

 

and it found the isy but REST complaining about missing style information

Why does the call have the variable name rather than the varID?

Sorry, I missed that point in your last post.

 

http://admin:password@192.168.0.49:90xx ... /set/2/1/1

 

Seem to be two issues:

1. A dialog box pops up asking me to confirm user id & password, even though they are filled in. Must be switch to suppress that ?

2. rest complaining about missing style information

I’m not enough of a network guy to understand what affect the port number and userid are having. Can you try the simple forum I posted (with your local IP address) into a browser command line and confirm the basic REST part is working. Someone with more network savvy than I will have to pick up from there.

satwar, just a thought. What type of browser are you using...Windows IE9 will not allow user/password in the address.

Sorry for the delay but the rest part is working. I must have made a typo. Unfortunately I am still getting the confirm userid & password dialog box.

 

Yes I see the problem about ie9, but I'm using Firefox. Microsoft does offer a patch to allow userid:password in the http path.

Try it without the port in the ip address such as:

 

http://user:pass@192.168.0.165/rest/vars/set/1/1/50

 

This would set variable Integer #1 to 50, I just checked to verify and it is working with firefox here.

It's working, after I used the microsoft fix 50642. I'm stuck with ie because I'm issuing the commands from a whs v1. It's using ie7, which also has the problem of not accepting Userid:Password@IPaddress in the http:// path.

 

Thanks all for the help. I didn't expect results so soon.