POST/PUT Support - format question about ha-bridge

[bwssytems]

So, You are almost there, I think....

So use the custom method as you said with the URL you need.

Then you have to select 'PUT' as the verb

The URL encoding should be ok.

Put the XML data in the examples in the body of on or off depending on what you need.

Hope that gives some direction.

[willplaice]

Hi

Im getting some sort of preamble in the command ? best way I can explain is - capture from ha-bridge on left, and from the call via the web app on the left (which works) -

any ideas?

[bwssytems]

Ahh, I see now. It is a "POST" command, even thought PUT is in the body...misleading.

So it is a POST command for the http verb and the on or off body is everything after the the quotes in the Form item capture..... "Form item:" "<YAMAHA_AV cmd" " = " ""PUT"><Main_Zone>......

[willplaice]

ok so the following in the body ?

"<YAMAHA_AV cmd" = ""PUT"><Main_Zone>Down</Main_Zone></YAMAHA_AV>”

?

I’ve grabbed 1.4.0 and here’s the comparison now:

note I still have additional characters being sent in the actual message…

[bwssytems]

You actually need to include a "Form item:" in the beginning as well just like the first one you showed. The wireshark output puts the field name there and then puts the text it received in quotes and that contained "Form item:".

[willplaice]

ok..

here’s the device config - and referring to the screen capture, can you see the extra characters in the left hand side, before the “POST” i’m guessing this is my problem ?

"name":"avDown","deviceType":"custom","targetDevice":"Encapsulated","offUrl":"","onUrl":"http://192.168.1.119:80/YamahaRemoteControl/ctrl","httpVerb":"POST","contentType":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded","contentBody":"\"Form item:" "PUT"\u003e\u003cMain_Zone\u003e\u003cVolume\u003e\u003cLvl\u003e\u003cVal\u003eDown\u003c/Val\u003e\u003cExp\u003e\u003c/Exp\u003e\u003cUnit\u003e\u003c/Unit\u003e\u003c/Lvl\u003e\u003c/Volume\u003e\u003c/Main_Zone\u003e\u003c/YAMAHA_AV\u003e"},{"id":"1584565507”,

On 21 Feb 2016, at 17:18, bwssytems [email protected] wrote:

You actually need to include a "Form item:" in the beginning as well just like the first one you showed. The wireshark output puts the field name there and then puts the text it received in quotes and that contained "Form item:".

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[bwssytems]

I'm not sure what you see as this looks good to me?

[willplaice]

see attached - it's sending the whole string in the key field and nothing in value ?

[bwssytems]

I was reading the remote app info and I am now very confused. Are these strings actually sent to the Yamaha Receiver or are they the config for the remote app?

[willplaice]

ok, and again many thanks for looking at this..

(please look at the last screen capture)

I have a wireshark trace of a working http post message that i want to copy into ha-bridge (the one on the right is the working one)

on the left is the output from ha-bridge with the device config below, as you can see there is a difference.

the working xml has values for key and vlaue

what i am sending via ha-bridge has all the detail in the key field and a blank value field.

i am guessing i’ve not put a coma or quote in the right place.

i hope that’s a clear explanation of the problem I’m having.

On 22 Feb 2016, at 15:24, bwssytems [email protected] wrote:

I was reading the remote app info and I am now very confused. Are these strings actually sent to the Yamaha Receiver or are they the config for the remote app?

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[bwssytems]

Ok, the confusing thing is the decoding from wireshark. Look at the hex dump below and that is the key: I copy and pasted, please check.

"name":"avDown","deviceType":"custom","targetDevice":"Encapsulated","offUrl":"","onUrl":"http://192.168.1.119:80/YamahaRemoteControl/ctrl","httpVerb":"POST","contentType":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded","contentBody":"<YAMAHA_AV cmd=\"PUT\"><Main_Zone><Volume><Lvl><Val>Down<Val><Exp></Exp><Unit></Unit></Lvl></Volume></Main_Zone></YAMAHA_AV>"}

[bwssytems]

Ok the markdown languag screwed that up... Just follow the text in the dump.

[bwssytems]

Aha, used the markdown language to fix the text above. Do not include the quotes in the beginning and the end.

[willplaice]

ok so i now see that when i paste strings into the content body on field, i get the extra characters added that i'm seeing being sent.... I'll edit the device.db file and see if i can get what i want to to send there.

[dale3h]

I was able to get this working from the HA Bridge web UI alone. When I compared the data I captured to the data from this post, I noticed that there was a / missing in the closing tag for Val.

Just to confirm, "Form item:" is not required in the "Content Body On"

Here is the body that worked for me: <YAMAHA_AV cmd="PUT"><Main_Zone><Volume><Lvl><Val>Down</Val><Exp></Exp><Unit></Unit></Lvl></Volume></Main_Zone></YAMAHA_AV>

Here is the config from device.db: {"id":"1554843008","name":"avDown","deviceType":"custom","targetDevice":"Encapsulated","onUrl":"http://192.168.1.119:80/YamahaRemoteControl/ctrl","httpVerb":"POST","contentType":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded","contentBody":"\u003cYAMAHA_AV cmd\u003d\"PUT\"\u003e\u003cMain_Zone\u003e\u003cVolume\u003e\u003cLvl\u003e\u003cVal\u003eDown\u003c/Val\u003e\u003cExp\u003e\u003c/Exp\u003e\u003cUnit\u003e\u003c/Unit\u003e\u003c/Lvl\u003e\u003c/Volume\u003e\u003c/Main_Zone\u003e\u003c/YAMAHA_AV\u003e"}

[bwssytems]

Is this working now?

[willplaice]

Hi. Yep. Seems pasting into the web gui causes formatting issues at least for me. So I'm having to edit the db file. But it works ! Thanks for the development and the support !

On 1 Mar 2016, at 14:57, bwssytems [email protected] wrote:

Is this working now?

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[dale3h]

Just to prevent any confusion for future users that come across this post: when pasting into the web UI, make sure that you're using < and >. In the config file is where you'll want to use \u003c and \u003e.