[SOLVED] Updating state of contact using rest/python

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Been struggling with this for the fast few hours and don’t seem to be getting anywhere.

Read on the forums someone had a similar issue as was advised to use a PUT rather than a POST.

I’ve tried that and still having issues.

Items:

Contact Door_Garage “Garage Door: %s” (Doors)

Python script:

connection =  httplib.HTTPConnection('openHABianPi.home:8080')
body_content = 'open'
connection.request('PUT', '/rest/items/Door_Garage/state', body_content)

OH2 Error:

Received HTTP PUT request at ‘items/Door_Garage/state’ with an invalid status value ‘open’.

Getting the same result with closed

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You are right in thinking that PUT works for contact items but POST does not, although I’m not sure why. The request is case sensitive, try ‘OPEN’ and ‘CLOSED’.

Edit: Reason why POST doesn’t work: POST is a command to an item. Since a contact is a sensor, not an actuator, you cannot command a sensor to close. However, you can update its status (which is what PUT does).

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Thanks, you are right. Its case sensitive doh! :slight_smile:

OPEN/CLOSED did the trick.