I have a rule that is triggered when one of my many temperature towers value(s) change. The action is a Send HTTP request which (ideally) looks similar to:
myIP/apps/api/appID/tower/%device%/%value%?access_token=xxxxxxxx
While the %device% and %value% works when using Send or Speak a Message it does not appear to work when using Send HTTP Get specifically because %device% is not replaced with the actual value. Is there a way around this?
I don't know why it wouldn't work, but you could put the bulk of the URL into a local variable as you have it and just use the local variable in the URL instead. I remember having to do something similar once, but I don't have those rules anymore to check
You must show the actual rule for context. Please add an action to log the uri string so we can see that.
The issue is with the device name I use. For example "Backyard Tower". This fails however... If I rename (or remove spaces) the device to "BackyardTower" it works.
Refresh my memory. Is %device% the device NAME or device LABEL? If its the former my problem is an easy fix by simply removing all spaces.
Device Label.
Can you explain what "fails" means? Do you have some error in your hub logs?
No errors on server/client side that I can see but I have confirmed the issue is with spaces in the device name (or URL for that matter) . Here is the rule
With a device label of "Backyard Tower" with a temerature value of 32.4, the rule sent is
http://192.168.1.129/apps/api/xx/tower/Backyard Tower/32.4?access_token=xxxxxxxxx
which fails. Renaming this device to "BackyardTower" or "Backyard_Tower" and all is good.
I think I'll just take all the spaces out of the label name.
I thought I read somewhere that RM has a urlEncode function or something similar. Maybe try that so the spaces will be properly encoded.
It didnt seem to make any difference in my case. For giggles (& having nothing better to do) I decided I would replace all spaces in the device label names with %20. As I suspected, after doing this all worked as it should 
I tried that but it does not seem to work. Using the rule I posted above, here is what the Rule log looks like. At the receiving end of the GET I get nothing,
If I take the same rule/device/etc, substitute devce/value I end up with
http://192.168.1.129/apps/api/56/tower/Garage%20Tower/14.8?access_token=xxxxxx
Pasting this into the address bar of a browser and all is good
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