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Virtual Wiring App


brett

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I'm looking into creating my own app for talking to my Virtual Wiring system.  I'd like to be able to change values in the system (like I do using the Device Explorer page), and perhaps read values from the system to update buttons or status in the app.  What's the best way to go about this?

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VW has a web interface which uses JSON.  There's a writeup on how to do it here:

http://www.catalinacomputing.com/docs/Developers/ProgrammaticWebsiteInteraction

Essentially, you can "get" a JSON representation of the total state of the system by reading from a VW system's "/" page.  To create events (change values), you "post" to the system's "/events" page.  In the writeup, there are examples using curl (a popular command line tool for interacting with websites).  To get a feel for things, use curl to read and write a system (curl comes pre-installed on most *nix systems, and if it's not, it's easy to download and install).  Once you see how things work, you can start reading and writing programmatically.

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