URL commands

This may be a very basic question...please forgive me. How do I send URL commands via indigo? Is that possible?

Thanks

Could you give an example of what you're wanting to do? I'm not sure what you mean by "URL commands."

Thanks for the reply...I may not be using terms correctly. I can control my red eye (thinkflood) by typing a URL into my web browser, and control my AV/Home Theater equipment via the red eye. I was wondering if there was a way to send that same URL via indigo with a script or something else. The idea would be to hit a button, send the URL (as if I typed it into a browser), and activate the red eye. Hope that helps.

Thnks

How about using curl from AppleScript?

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Do shell script "curl http.........."

Include the speak marks,and replace .....

Mat

[jay (support)]

I'm not terribly familiar with it, but the Cynical Network plugin may do it with no scripting.

How about using curl from AppleScript?

To expand on mat's suggestion, you could create Control Page in Indigo. A Control Page adds a web page to the built-in Indigo web server. On the new Control Page, you could add a "Static Image/Caption" object that has one of the button image included with Indigo associated with it. The server action associated with that Static Image/Caption object would be to Execute Script (AppleScript type). Within the text entry area for that Execute Script action, you'd put

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do shell script "curl <your custom URL here>"

where <your custom URL here> is the URL that controls your Red Eye or your AV system.

Thx all for the suggestions...I'll try them

That's all for the replies...the "curl" script worked perfectly. One more question. If I wanted to string a couple of actions together with the apple script, but introduce a 5sec delay in between, how would I write that. I appreciate the help, as I am not a programmer...I just enjoy playing with this. I've been able to set up a keypad link button to turn on my devon receiver, which is a problem with the regular insteon ir converter as denon does not recognize the signals.

Thanks again!

?.. If I wanted to string a couple of actions together with the apple script, but introduce a 5sec delay in between, how would I write that.

do shell script...
delay 5
do shell script...

Thanks...that's what i thought, but it didn't seem to work...I'll try again. Thanks for the help

Thanks...it worked when I put the delay into parenthesis
do shell script...
(delay 5)
do shell script...

Parents shouldn't be necessary... Can you post your script, there may be some tweaks that could help.

?.. If I wanted to string a couple of actions together with the apple script, but introduce a 5sec delay in between, how would I write that.

do shell script...
delay 5
do shell script...

If you're going to use AppleScript to create a delay of more than 1 second, I'd recommend doing it in an external script rather than an embedded one, simply because embedded AppleScripts run in the main Indigo thread and a "delay 5" in an imbedded script will cause the entire server to hang for 5 seconds while waiting for the embedded script to finish. If you don't want to use an external AppleScript, you could create a second action step for the trigger that is delayed by 0.08 minutes (check box at the bottom of the action step) and put your second "do shell script" command in there. That makes everything editable from within the Indigo Client, eliminates server hangs, and preserves the functionality of what you're trying to do.

Thanks for the replies...I haven't checked this post in awhile, since I was able to do things a little different. I use a red eye remote (think flood) to control my AV equipment. This allows me to set up an activity such as "watch TV". I can then use the URL of that activity, and I just do shell script curl... and voila the whole thing goes. So the delay within the scripting has become a moot point....however, I appreciate all of the help!

Glad to hear all is working out well with the script setup.