Domoticz

Posted: **Tuesday 15 March 2016 18:42**

I'm trying to set the value of the TEXT virtual device using bash and curl, the value having spaces.
I have no problems with the following command in a brower

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http://192.168.21.240:8080/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx=217&nvalue=0&svalue=Please power ON this gear

However when using this code

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message="Please power on this gear"
messageIDX=217
curl --silent $DOMOTICZSERVER:$DOMOTICZPORT'/json.htm?type=command&param=udevice&idx='$messageIDX'&nvalue=0&svalue='$message

Only the first word is displayed. I tried many things including escaping the single quote. At best only the first word of the message is displayed, or using many other solutions I tried an error is trigerred on the server side.
Any clue?
Thank you

Posted: **Tuesday 15 March 2016 18:46**

try do some url encoding

message="Please%20power%20on%20this%20gear"

Posted: **Tuesday 15 March 2016 18:47**

Use %20 for space.

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Posted: **Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:00**

I expect the issue with argument passing to curl. try double quotes : "$message"

Posted: **Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:49**

Thanks guys, it did the trick. I'm using the same idea to display accented characters
fyi double quote was one of my first tries. It does not work.

Domoticz

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