I’m looking for an app like OpenWeather, but for any API. I’m new to Homey btw, so have patience :slight_smile: Say I have a thermostat that is not supported by Athom, but has it’s own api. I would like to add a virtual device and pull the temperature from the online api every five minutes. I’m su…

You can try to use Webhooks, no App needed, it’s buildin (logic).

Yup. An example. Webhook tado temperature sent to Pro Screenshot of unreadable action card: [Screenshot_20220324-170309_Homey] . Webhook received by Pro . View the contents of [tag] [Screenshot_20220324-165523_Homey]

I think you might like these topics, Ulf. [image] Setting up simple GET request and storing value as numeric logic object Questions & Help Hi everyone. Hope someone more familiar with GET requests can help me out here, as I’m new to the syntax required to setup GET respon…

Thank you :slight_smile: I have 13 unsupported devices with a total of 33 sensors, so I believe a solution with webhooks would require 33 flows. I will look into using scripts in stead since they are easier to copy. I should be able to map the json values to virtual device properties so they are pr…

[image] ulfkri: matter of mapping the json val While its certainly possible to do this through homey/homeyscript, it might be quicker&nicer to use node-red for the API->MQTT… I went the same route for basically everything so I’m flexible if anything needs to change, e.g. I’ve moved my trash …

Thanks for the input, I will look into node-red. I discovered I’m not any good with JavaScript, so now I’m thinking I might have a custom built service running on a local computer pulling device values from remote api’s and pushing them to Homey via MQTT to virtual devices on the MQTT Hub…

Node-red (NR) is a visual workflow tool that does the work for you, no need to write JS if you don’t want to, but it is possible. It would still be running on a local computer (RPi, Nas etc) but it’s scalable and very easy

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