Vera WebService/API

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#1

Does Vera have a webservice or API that other computers can access to poll the device and send it commands?

Why?

I want to start to develop a Windows 7 Media Center Add-In to control and view the status of my devices and scenes.

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#2

PS… I assume there is a web service running on Vera. That is how findvera.com would access it.

#3

Hi Roger.NET,

We store the info about devices in an XML file on Vera. Vera runs on lighthttpd web server serving varios html, xml, js, php and cgi files to the end-user. You can take a look at this 2 wiki pages:

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Test_Sequence

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Requests

#4

Awesome… Thank You!

#5

This sounds like a great add-in, I use Win7 MCE and Xbox 360 Extenders extensively in my home. Let us know if you make this work! Great idea…

#6

I also use a Windows 7 Media Center with Xbox 360 extenders. Would be open to beta testing when you get closer.

#7

@Roger.Net

earlier this week I completed my first milestone in my ‘Rosalie’ project - a voice command app running on the .net 4.0 framework. It currently polls for your devices on load and then builds a grammar full of commands for basic Binary/Dimmer lighting devices. Want to compare notes? I plan on flushing out a few more things before posting as an OS solution on Google Code or similar repository.

Let me know

#8

In my floorplan designer I also have code to interact with vera. I will be gone for a week, so after that I will try to get a place to share my code.

Perhaps I could split off an assembly for vera interaction, so we get something in common…