Myopenhab connection state

Apps & Services myopenHAB
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All,

I recently had issues of Alexa not beeing able to connect to OH through myopenhab.org.
So I would like to monitor the connection state.
What’s the easiest way to “read” the state out of myopenhab.org.
https://myopenhab.org/events?source=openhab

I tried the URL above with http binding and Basic authentication, but myopenhab.org still asks for authentication.

Is there an easy way to get ONLINE / OFFLINE state of myopenhab.org to my OH instance at home?

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Thank you, @sihui
The general online state of myopenhab.org was not what I meant.
I monitor this with {channel="network:servicedevice:myopenhab:online"}

What I was after is the state displayed in my myopenhab.org events:

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So the actual connection state between myopenhab.org and my raspberry pi with OH.

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Okay :slight_smile:
Did you also try the base64-encoding?

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No I didn’t - thanks.
But instead I tried it with curl:
curl -u "username:password" https://myopenhab.org/events

In this case it should work anyway right?
But I get:
Found. Redirecting to /login

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I am only using cURL to send commands to my electric car, no idea how this may work for reading stuff.

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Thanks fior your help.
I usually use curl quite a bit.
for instance the query the temperature at the location of my car to trigger the heater if needed:
curl -s http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=...
That’s working fine.

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Almost the same here :slight_smile: (Renault ZOE)

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:slight_smile:
By the way, when trigegring a switch I use nowadays the http binding instead of curl:
{http=">[ON:GET:http://192.168.68.34:...}] >[OFF:GET:http:...

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Yeah, I was thinking about that, too. But I will wait for the http2 binding to not have double the work :slight_smile:

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right - almost forgot.
I am desperately waiting for it either :slight_smile:

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I am not using the myopenhab.org cloud but the local cloud so it cold be that the following script needs to be adapted to work with the public cloud. At least I used /events?source=openhab to test it with the local cloud.


!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller;
use URI::URL;

my $BASEURL     = 'https://myopenhab.org';
my $USER        = 'YourUserAccountHere';
my $PASSWORD    = 'YourPasswordHere';

my $LOGINURL    = $BASEURL . '/login';
my $ONLINEURL   = $BASEURL . '/events?source=openhab';

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
my $formfiller = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new();
$agent->env_proxy();

$agent->get( $LOGINURL );
$agent->form_number(1) if $agent->forms and scalar @{$agent->forms};
$formfiller->add_filler( 'username' => Fixed => $USER );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'password' => Fixed => $PASSWORD );
$formfiller->fill_form($agent->current_form);
$agent->submit();

$agent->get( $ONLINEURL );

my $status = $agent->content();
my @status = split ("\n", $status);
@status    = grep( /events\?source=openhab/, @status );
$status[0] =~ s#</a>.*##;
$status[0] =~ s#.*>##;

print( $status[0], "\n" );
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Thanks, @Wolfgang_S
I will give it a try.
Just out of curiosity - what is the “local” cloud you are referring too?

EDIT:
After installing the MECHANIZE libs the script starts running, but ends with an error:

[09:45:59] openhabian@homer:/etc/openhab2/scripts$ perl -w MyOHCld_State.pl
Error GETing https://myopenhab.org/: Internal Server Error at MyOHCld_State.pl line 23.
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I assume @Wolfgang_S is running his own instance of the openhab Cloud

You can connect to your own cloud instance so you are not running on “myopenhab.org” instance

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Ah, thanks.
For me personally I just need connectivity from outside (and Alexa).
So a local cloud would not make sense to my case, because you would need to open ports then (unless I missed something).

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IMO I think that is a perfectly acceptable choice. I have limited items that I control through the myopenhab cloud.

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the online cloud, I assume?

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Yes that one :slight_smile:

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Me too - just the ones to Alexa.
And I have created a switch to disconnect Alexa, when I am not at home to prevent her messing up my appartment :wink:

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looks like there is a difference between public and local/private cloud.
Submitting the form then returns an error.

Could you enter the following line:

print( $agent->content() );

before the row that contains $agent->submit();
This then should print out the content of the login page.
You may sent a message with that content to my address.
Please make sure that your password is not in that file ( just in case that is printed out, too ).

You also could follow the instructions in this Linux Magazin article ( in german )

That’s the way how I constructed the basics of that script.

In case you prefer to read an english article here is one

In case you need further assistance please let me know.