TouchControl

[Jeff Wooding]

Too funny that is how I access stuff between XTension and other Home
Automation hubs (Alexa, Home Assistant, Siri{homebridge}) And all have been
playing nicely for some time now!

Thanks,
Jeff

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Burk Roberts <cyburk at gmail.com> wrote:

> James, you’re a genius! Thank you so much.
>
> I have never messed with the JSON interface because I thought it was
> beyond me and couldn’t imagine a use for it, but TouchControl has a "HTTP
> Request” interface option that makes it trivially easy to send the “Simple
> URL Control" described in your documentation. That’s all I need to trigger
> my lighting control scripts. Functionality is instantaneous and reliable,
> and I’m able to do it all without (1) switching away from my TouchControl
> panel or (2) introducing any inconsistencies into the interface. It’s
> perfect and I couldn’t be happier.
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2017, at 3:56 PM, james at sentman.com wrote:
>
> And when I say the answer is no, it’s not really no… ;)
>
> You could setup an HTML/JSON server interface and assign some pseudos to
> that which would then execute any scripts or other things you wish to do
> with it from there.
>
> If you create some new units and assign them along with some creative
> addresses to the JSON interface you can easily control those via a simple
> HTML request that the remote software can make.
>
> the documentation for the HTML/JSON interface is at:
>
> http://machomeautomation.com/doku.php/supported_hardware/json
>
> but if anything doesn’t make immediate sense drop me a line off the list
> and we will figure it out!
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2017, at 2:06 PM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the answer to all your questions at this moment is no… But I
> can certainly make all that happen. I will get myself a copy of this touch
> app thing shortly and begin experimenting with it, just adding some links
> to control units is not that much of a stretch.
>
> But what else are you integrating with that touch app that you can’t do in
> the web remote normally? You just like their big glossy buttons better? Or
> are there things it really does that you can’t do in XTension yet?
>
>
> Thanks,
>  James
>
>
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