[Feature request] URL Scheme parameters

[alexbartisro]

It would be lovely for OH to support url schemes for items. I know they can't extend more than ON/OFF, but it would be nice to be able to create a shortcut to a specific item state, like
openhab://SwitchLight:ON

[NickWaterton]

Openhab already has URL schemes for setting/getting item states. Don't really understand this request.

[alexbartisro]

Didn't know that. Are they documented somewhere?

[NickWaterton]

Under the rest wiki, they are described.

Basic format is http://openhaburl:port/rest/items/itemname you can get, post or put depending on what you want to do (get/set state or post update value). Works on groups also.

So to get the setting for SwitchLight you would use http://openhaburl:port/rest/items/SwitchLight/state which would return On/OFF or a value if it's a dimmer. You can use this in rules to get the state from a string.

You can use this externally, or from within rules.

If you can only GET (i.e. From a browser) you can use http://openhaburl:port/classicuiCMD?item=state to set a value. So in your example above it would be http://openhaburl:port/classicui/CMD?SwitchLight=ON.

Is that what you were looking for?

[alexbartisro]

Ah, ok. No :)

I am talking about deep linking in mobile devices (iOS & Android).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_deep_linking

[NickWaterton]

Ok, I see, you want to get the value from the Openhab app, To use in another app. That does kind of make you two steps removed from the actual value. Probably better to get it direct from Openhab via rest if you can (I'm assuming that you can't though).

What would be an example use for this? Maybe there is another way round it, but apple is pretty tight on passing data from one app to another.

[alexbartisro]

No, there's no issue with deeplinking on iOS. I've actually started to write it on a fork of the iOS app a few months ago, but didn't have the time to finish it.

A nice usecase: use a widget that allows launching of apps, like Launcher. In launcher you can create a launcher like openhab://SwitchLight:ON, and when you tap it in the notification center, the light turns on automatically, without the actual need of opening the app and searching for the item.

[NickWaterton]

I actually use HomeRemote for use cases like that, it allows many action types, I use the URL scheme to turn items ON/OFF. Has voice recognition, and displays in the Notification Center. Voice reconigition is not great though. I mostly use it because of its Apple Watch app, so I can turn things ON/OFF from my watch. Voice recognition works on the watch as well, but as I say it's not great.

If you just want to turn things (or multiple things) on and off from the Notification Center, there are a few apps that do this, but I have found Home Remote to be the best. I even got the developer to add an Openhab URL setting for the watch interface (so it posts plain text for voice reconition).

[dome2048]

This is an old thread... but what about implementing a simpler URL scheme? A basic one would allow openHAB to be launched by third party iOS launcher apps.

[lukaszolek]

Any updates on this?