ekuzmack Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I have a miCasa Verde Vera model 1 I purchased a while ago when I was tinkering with home automation, and ended up going with the ISY. overall, I'm much happier with the ISY, except with the integration with door locks. I want a door lock solution that can report lock/unlock status back to the ISY. here's my question: The vera has a web API, but I don't know much about it. Does anyone have any experience with the vera API to know if the ISY can interact with it? my thinking is that I could setup the vera to control my door lock, then use the ISY network module to talk to the vera and control the lock and obtain open/closed status. I don't want to go through the mess of installing a plunger contact or anything like that to determine lock status.... Any thoughts on this? thanks! Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Hello ekuzmack, The main problem with using network resources is that it's a one way street: it can send commands but it cannot receive commands. Furthermore, as far as I know, Vera does not have an HTTPS server so the commands you send to it from ISY would not be encrypted. This is a little scary for me especially since we are talking about door locks. But, I must confess that I do not know much about Vera except bits and pieces of information I receive from customers such as yourself. To report door lock status to ISY, you can use one State Variable and then - and if possible - call ISY's REST interface from Vera. This said, I strongly suggest using HTTPS (not HTTP) as all your credentials and door status are going to be transmitted in the clear otherwise. With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
ekuzmack Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 Thanks - I'll look into the HTTPS issue - this will be over my wired network, so I'm not as concerned, primarily because if someone has compromised my house to the point of having a sniffer on my network, then I'm pretty much screwed anyway My thought would be to have the isy perform a lock/unlock command, wait some period of time (I'd have to figure out what the timeout needs to be), then re-poll the vera for status. The less I do on the vera the better. I doubt I'll have time to play with it in the next week or so, but if I get it working, I'll post the information back here... thanks for the always quick reply! Eric Link to comment
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