Watched folder to trigger Indigo?

Before I jump too far down this rabbit hole, I thought I would ask if this seems like a good idea:

My Foscam C1 is set up to record motion detection events to the Drop Box folder of the user my Indigo Server runs under.

If I use Automator to watch that folder, then on any new file, I could trigger an Indigo action, effectively making my C1 a motion detector.

Reasonable?

Yes, certainly.

Using the Restful API, you can call an Indigo action.

I do it with some Python on a Windows PC, but I'm sure Automator would work.


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Where do I find docs on the the Restful API?

http://wiki.indigodomo.com/doku.php?id= ... stful_urls

Or:

Website > Support > How to Wiki > Tech Docs for Indigo 6* > RESTful API

*right at the bottom.


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Thanks again! I even think I get it!

Assuming I have an indigo variable called YardMotion
I create this applescript that triggers on folder change:

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set YardMotion to "true"
set IndigoWarning to "curl -u username:password --digest -X PUT -d value=" & YardMotion & " http://192.168.0.99:8176/variables/YardMotion"
do shell script IndigoWarning

Edit: fixed curly quotes in code

In theory it looks right but I don't know AppleScript or how curl PUTs values.

Someone like @flyingdiver can probably help here.


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More experimenting got that script above to compile in Script Editor AFTER I replaced the curly quotes with straight quotes.

More experimenting got that script above to compile in Script Editor AFTER I replaced the curly quotes with straight quotes.

Yeah, fancy quotes are a programmer's nightmare. Never use a word processor (TextEdit or worse) for editing scripts.