New idea, API messages

[netRunner0]

Thanks again for your work, the plugin is great!

You have support for messages on the TV in the form of static buttons and predefined messages.
It would be nice if you made API support for messages, so that it would be possible to send any messages with any data via HomeKit automation (http requests).

Please consider this as an idea for implementation)

[merdok]

thanks for the feedback, but i am not quite sure if i understand it correctly. Could you please elaborate it more, if possible with an real world use case?

[netRunner0]

For example, I need to send a message about low water level (25%) or about upcoming frosts (up to -20)

The values ​​25 and 20 are dynamic. They are in Homekit, and I would like to send them to TV via Homekit

[merdok]

There is a file property on the notificationButtons, when you specify that, it will read out the file and show the content of it in the notification. Other then that you can use the toast cli command which will also show a notification on the tv.

[netRunner0]

This is good, but there is no way to write a file in Homekit automations. It would be nice to have a web server on some port to receive these commands via POST.

[merdok]

As mentioned, you can do that with the cli commands. You could setup a service on a server which then calls the cli commands.

[netRunner0]

I tried to access from commands via SSH but there was a problem
To get to the CLI, you need to run the command hb-shell and then webostv toast ...

I tried to pass the execution of 2 commands via SSH from commands:
sudo hb-shell & webostv toast ip mac message but this returns an unknown error

When simply working from the console, messages are sent fine

[netRunner0]

[merdok]

This seems to be more of an OS related issue and would have nothing to do with the initial request, so i would recommend you to check the permissions or other OS related things.

[netRunner0]

The fact is that one command is always executed, and two commands in a row can no longer be executed (using shorts)

Therefore, I would like to see an intermediary in the form of a mini web server to receive messages via json...

[merdok]

Yeah, you would need to build yourself that small web server if you require it, the tools to do that are available. If you think that some other people could benefit from that then you could submit a pull request and we could include that in the repo.