Home Assistant syntax question

kellanist

Setting up Home Assistant.

I saw the post here: https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/193/how-to-run-commands-from-home-assistant

This is what needs to be entered in the .yml

rest_command:
triggercmd_calculator:
url: 'https://www.triggercmd.com/api/run/triggerSave'
method: "post"
content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
payload: "trigger=calculator&computer=russfam&token=(your token from Instructions page)"

Questions:

For triggercmd_calculator in the second line, can that be anything? Where is that variable used?
If I have a trigger called "Lock My PC" what do I use as a delimiter for the spaces? -? ""?
Any fun script that anyone has kicking around that will parse the existing commands into the format above?

kellanist

Tried adding this to the yml file:

rest_command:
triggercmd_mute:
url: 'https://www.triggercmd.com/api/run/triggerSave'
method: "post"
content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
payload: "trigger=mute&computer=VIEWSCREEN&token=MYTOKEN"

Doesn't seem to show up in the Home Assistant dashboard.

Anyone have any ideas?

Russ

@kellanist, maybe you have to reload the config?

I see mine if I click Services under Developer tools, and click the down arrow. It's called "rest_command.triggercmd_calculator".

This is what's at the end of my configuration.yaml file:

rest_command:
  triggercmd_calculator:
    url: 'https://www.triggercmd.com/api/run/triggerSave'
    method: "post"
    content_type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    payload: "trigger=calculator&computer=russfam&token=(mytoken)

kellanist

Ahhhh Ok I see it now! I thought it was going to add them to the dashboard directly but I need to add the service to an automation for it to work.

For trigger names with spaces what is the delimiter?

Russ

@kellanis, the delimiter is %20