How to issue curl commands within myServer for automation?

Hey guys I have a Tetratune video processor in my home theater and up to this point I've been controlling this through it's built in web server but I would very much like to enable some automation through myServer. It's a niche device that's only been available for a few months so there's obviously no native driver available in myServer, but today Videworks (the manufacturer) has implemented a public API for automation along with the necessary documentation. It uses Curl for this.

For example I'd like to be able to be able to enable/disable the video processor on the fly from my remote. The commands to do so are:

curl -X POST 192.168.1.xxx/colour_tuner/enable/true -d '{}'

curl -X POST 192.168.1.xxx/colour_tuner/enable/false -d '{}

I know absolutely nothing about curl, but from what I gather myServer has the capability of issuing these types of commands. Can anyone tell me how I would add this to a myServer macro? I assume there is some additional syntax that is required beyond me just pasting these exact lines into my command sequences.

Since I don't know what I don't know if I'm not providing enough info here I can certainly provide the API documentation if it would be helpful. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

You would use PostURL. Something like:

Just to elaborate, I created a Macro using that Allonis statement with Macro replacement parameters specified.

For example (using a "Get" HTTP statement instead of a "Post"):

Macro hs_run_event (which initiates a Homeseer event):

GetUrl|http://192.168.0.80/JSON?request=runevent&groupname=&name=


And when I want to invoke it:

hs_run_event|TheGroupName~TheEventName


-- the reulting http command that is actually sent to Homeseer is:

http://192.168.0.80/JSON?request=runevent&groupname=TheGroupName&name=TheEventName


 

aa6vh wrote:

Just to elaborate, I created a Macro using that Allonis statement with Macro replacement parameters specified.

For example (using a "Get" HTTP statement instead of a "Post"):

Macro hs_run_event (which initiates a Homeseer event):

GetUrl|http://192.168.0.80/JSON?request=runevent&groupname=&name=


And when I want to invoke it:

hs_run_event|TheGroupName~TheEventName


-- the reulting http command that is actually sent to Homeseer is:

http://192.168.0.80/JSON?request=runevent&groupname=TheGroupName&name=TheEventName



 

I think the editor/forum software ate your p1 and p2 parameter tags.

Just tested and POSTURL let's me manually enable/disable the various toggles in the VP and switch between different 3D LUT slots. This is WAY better than having to juggle between the remote and a web browser on my phone.

Now I need to figure out how to query the VP for the attributes of whatever content is currently playing and add them as variables in myServer. I suspect this is going to be a bit more complicated lol

Thanks for putting me on the right path you guys are awesome!



 

I use RunParseResults to run a local shell script on the server and parse the returned JSON output into myServer variables.