I am trying to upload a device's value on schedule to a 3rd party api (io.adafruit.com). I tried doing this using a momentary switch, and it worked.... with one minor issue. I can call a POST to the api and formulate the json in the body. The problem is that I don't have any way to get the value from a device (e.g. I can only hard-code values in the body). Is there something that I am missing here? Thank you so much in advance!
What are you using to send the POST? If Rule Machine, you can grab the device value into a variable, and put the variable into the POST body using %variable-name%.
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@bravenel, thank you so much for that! I do have this working, with one exception: how do I schedule it to run every x minutes? Unfortunately the triggers seem very limited, but I know from working with other hubs that sometimes we can daisy-chain items to achieve our desired outcome.
EDIT: Maybe create a virtual switch and have it turn on and off every x minutes. Could I then just have the trigger in this rule be a state change in the switch?
Why on schedule? Why not upload the device's value every time it changes, and use the fact that it changes as a trigger for the automation?
I should add that if you chose this approach, you wouldn't even need to create a variable with the device's value.
Thank you both so much! I completely missed that trigger.
Yeah, I had thought about triggering it on the temperature change only. The reason why I am not doing it now is that I wanted to have regular data points for a project that I am doing related to this sensor.
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