How to run Fibaro Scene in HA-Bridge?

[chchiat]

Hi,

I tried to fill in the scene control command to HA-Bridge. But it does not work.

http:https://USER%40EMAIL.COM:PASSWORD@IPADDRESS/api/sceneControl?id=ID&action=start

I tried to fill in the scene control link to the "On Items" field in HA-Bridge, it does not work. But I tried to run in my browser it works.

How should we fill it if we want to run a scene in HA-Bridge?

Anyone? Thanks.

[Matt8119]

the fibaro commands are a little bit different and change with updates... with the last major update, you need to add an extra "/" between address and api like the example below:
http:https://USER%40MAIL.COM:PASSWORD@IPADRESS//api/devices/17/action/turnOn

[chchiat]

Hi Matt,

Can I assume if I want to trigger a Scene I should put in the http command below into "On Items" field in Ha-bridge?

http:https://USER%40MAIL.COM:PASSWORD@IPADRESS//api/sceneControl?id=45&action=start

Am I right?

[chchiat]

tried with the two "//" does not work.

[autofrank]

Hi

I have used
http:https:// USER%40EMAIL.COM:PASSWORD@IPADDRESS/api/sceneControl?id=ID&action=start

to start a scene with the latest HA bridge and it works
replace ID with scene id

[qnstie]

In the current Fibraro firmware (4.140) the API call is:
http:https://FIBARO_IP/api/scenes/SCENE_ID/action/start

You may try to add the user:password@ prefix before the IP to pass the parameters.
But:

Generally there is a real problem with Fibaro is with using the http:https://user@password@IP/API_CALL, which manifests itself when you try to pass JSON arguments in the HTTP body (like with a dimmer, where you need to pass a {"args":[${intensity.percent}]} JSON to the Fibaro API call (/api/devices/DEVICE_NUM/action/setValue).
With the current Fibaro firmware such a call will always result with error 405.

Mercifully a simple solution exists and I guess it is generally better than using the username and password.

All you need to do is to - instead of the user:password@ construction - use a HTTP header with a hash of the user:password part.
You just add a block like below to the "HTTP Headers" section of the HA Bridge definition:
[{name: "Authorization", "value": "Basic XYZaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbccc=="}]

The content of the XYZ... block above can be generated in a few seconds by many tools, take the first one in Google (search for e.g. "authorization: basic hash generator"). I personally use Postman Chrome extension (a great tool to test REST calls), which has the hash generator built-in.

I use the above HTTP header solution for all the calls (even without parameters), it seems a much cleaner and safer solution than using user and password in unencrypted HTTP call.

[bwssytems]

Fibaro Scenes will be included in 5.0.0