Ask homey if a light is on?

Questions & Help
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From my PC I want to ask Homey if a certain light is on or off. Does anybody have an idea on how to that in a smart way?

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Maybe you can do something with webhooks.
Send a webhook from youre pc to Homey and let Homey say yes ot no or show it in the timeline. Or let a virtual switch turn on or of.
Look in this community for webhook.

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What type of PC - Mac or Windows? Also how do you want to ask (voice, text, click on a link?) and how do you want it to respond (voice, text, something else)?

Also, what kind of Homey are you using - just the app, the Homey bridge or the Homey Pro?

If you can answer these then it will be easier to give suggestions that will work for you.

4

You could use this app.

Call it via REST.
Make an AdvancedFlow where you check the light and then return the result as JSON.

5

Hi Jonathan, In a C# Windows App I want to ask Homey if a light is on? REST would be nice.
I have named all devices with a unique name under each zone so I can get the device object by:

const devices = await Homey.devices.getDevices();
const device = Object.values(devices).find((p) => p.name === name && p.zoneName == zone);

Is there a REST on homey?? I would settle for MQTT as well. It does not matter that it will be asynchronous.

I’m on a 2016 Pro (waiting for the new one :-)).

Thanks in advance!
/Ulf Modig

6

Now I saw the response above. Maybe the local API app will solve it. I didn’t know that it existed. Will try it out…

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Thanks for the tip, hadn’t found this app but I’ll try it out.

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Yes I was just about to suggest that app also. I use it extensively and it will do exactly what you need via REST