Send HTTP command luup.inet.wget

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Hi,

I followed an online guide on how to send http commands to XBMC to start stop pause etc.

It works when I paste the command into a web browser, for instance this pause xbmc:

http://192.168.0.190/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.PlayPause","params":{"playerid":1},"id":1}

In the guide I’m supposed to enter the command into the Luup field into a new scene as follows:

luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.190/jsonrpc?request={“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“method”:“Player.PlayPause”,“params”:{“playerid”:1},“id”:1}”)

When I try to activated that scene, nothing happens and ever since createing the scene the top display in vera says:

ERROR for lua scenes and events

Once I get it to work I’ll add the scene to Homewave.

Any idea whats going on here?

Kind Regards
Tommy

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Try using single quotes instead of double quotes. The url is most likely clashing with the Lua interpreter.

  • Garrett
3

Thanks,

I’ll try that, but in the mean time I figured out a workaround. I just pasted the URL that worked from a browser into a Homewave button that could be configured to launch a URL (I didnt know that was possible)

Works great!

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Your the man Garrett :slight_smile:

The single quotes did it, and I ended up needing to to the work from Vera anyway. I followed this guide (halfway down, motion detection notification to xbmc)

http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.no/2013_02_01_archive.html

It says nothing about single quotes though! Glad you knew.

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@garrettwp

I have the exact same situation as tommylad. So I used the luup…

function HTTPGet(URL)
local status, result = luup.inet.wget(URL, 3)
end

HTTPGet(‘http://192.168.122.xxx:xxx/cgi/admin/ptctrl.cgi?action=move&Cmd=Position1’)

I get msg sent successful, but the cam does not move. In a browser http://192.168.122.xxx:xxx/cgi/admin/ptctrl.cgi?action=move&Cmd=Position1 works perfectly.

What do you think is wrong here?

Thanks