http on off not working

[phred91]

I have a Light Symphony outdoor lighting system which comes with a LAN attached gateway so I can switch lights and my water fountain on and off from a smartphone app. There is also a simple browser interface for setting things up and testing the gateway.
After using the Inspect Element feature of Chrome and sniffing some packets with Wireshark, I discovered the method used is quite simple.
For example, to switch one of the lighting zones on, send "http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3" and to switch that zone off it's "http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=4".
When I send these commands from a browser they work.
I have set up a dummy switch with these url's in the On Action and Off Action boxes but it doesn't work.
When I use Inspect Element I see no evidence of the url being executed. Neither does Wireshark show any traffic to 192.168.1.39 (the address of the Light Symphony gateway).
Am I doing something wrong? How can I get the dummy switch to send the commands?

Feeling stupid...

[SweetPants]

try http:///192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3

[phred91]

Thanks but that didn't work. When I did that it came up as an error in the Log:
2015-06-09 10:31:36.765 Error: Error opening url: http:///192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3
Changed it back to just http:// and no error in the log.
Running Wireshark I see traffic between my laptop and Domoticz running on the RPi, but no outbound traffic between Domoticz and the Light Symphony gateway. But that may be because I'm running Wireshark on my laptop and it's not seeing all traffic on my LAN.
I'll try looking a bit deeper into the test packets from the browser access to the gateway to see if I'm missing anything extra in the http call.

[rik82]

Hi, I have the same problem. Did you manage to fix this?

Thanks

[SweetPants]

Hi, I have the same problem. Did you manage to fix this?
Thanks

What version are you running? Using 2.2538, all works fine
Dummy Switch:
On action: http://192.168.24.250:8080/json.htm?typ ... On&level=0
Off action: http://192.168.24.250:8080/json.htm?typ ... ff&level=0
Turns on/off my switch with idx=5
So the mechanism works fine

[Petedomo]

I'm also having the same problem.

I'm using 2.2563

When using a http:/// url (3 slashes) I see an error in the log file
When using a http:// url (2 slashes) no error shows up, but the external url is never triggered.

When pasting the url in a simple browser, it works, so I know the url is correct.

Did you ever manage to fix this ?

[phred91]

Peterdomo and rik82:

No, I never managed to fix this. I've been playing with this again and here is what I've discovered.

From a browser, when I navigate to http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3 nothing happens. If I try again, i.e. navigate to the same url, or click on refresh, then the Zone 1 light switches on. Same thing for switching off: go to http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=4 twice. Notice that it's a single slash after the IP address, not two or three as previously suggested.

I've tried putting these url's in the On Action and Off Action boxes for my Dummy Switch, but this doesn't work.

I've also tried setting up a simple Blockly Event: If Dummy Switch = On, Open url: http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3, Open url: http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3 (i.e. do it twice) but this also doesn't work.

So it seems the issue to overcome is to get the system to open the correct url twice, possibly with a slight pause between.

Anyone have any ideas? If I can't solve this I'm probably going to scrap the Light Symphony system and replace it with a few simple Home Easy or Lightwaverf components...

[Sappien]

Try using domoticz_main (in script folder)

if [ "$devname" = "Lamp1" ] ; then
if [ "$status" = "On" ] ; then
curl -s "http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=3"
else
curl -s "http://192.168.1.39/but.cgi?but=4"
fi
fi

[NathanJPhillips]

Any idea how many people on here are using Light Symphony?