[SOLVED] Contact Items, how to use OPEN/CLOSE and how to do status change through an API

[rgroothuis (Rene Groothuis)]

I’ve a number of Raspberry devices in my house controlling some motion and door sensors (all via GPIO) and i’ve some python scripts running on them to report the status into a central smarthome controller.
I’m investigating if I can move to OpenHAB as a central controller. I want to create multiple “items” for the door and motion sensors. For motion I’m using a Switch, I expect that for the door sensor in need (can) use the Contact item, like:

Contact 	FrontDoorSensor    			"Voordeur:%s"				icon="door"			(HallWayGroundFloor, DoorSensors)

But how can I make update thew OPEN and CLOSED status through an API (URL)? Any suggestions?

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

Use the REST api:

openHAB REST API

[rgroothuis (Rene Groothuis)]

Thanks, I found that indeed, I was able to update the switches but not the contacts. But in the mean time found out that I need to use the PUT HTTP command and NOT the POST. That did the trick.

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

Good.
Please mark the thread as solved. Thanks

[rgroothuis (Rene Groothuis)]

Is that by putting [SOLVED] at the beginning of the subject?

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

No, it’s ticking the post with the solution:

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@rgroothuis

Thanks, I found that indeed, I was able to update the switches but not the contacts. But in the mean time found out that I need to use the PUT HTTP command and NOT the POST. That did the trick.

The key thing is POST corresponds with sendCommand and PUT corresponds with sendUpdate and you cannot sendCommand OPEN/CLOSED.