[how to] Replace Apps by scripts

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• Eternity Member

  February 2018

  Thanks! Good idea and initiative !
• techniman Member

  March 2018

  Thanks, my homey forces me to do this stuff unfortunately.. 
  Anyway, I have an other one the trash collection app, nice but it takes room, the below script will allow you to script something similar. 
  
  Requirements are the same as the above so I won't list them here 
  next you need two files located here : 
  https://gist.github.com/Radiotechniman/30698fb2c2e0fe3ecb30c876a02f7f31
  
  These need to be saved on the php server and the trash.json file needs to be filled with the dates that the trash is picked up in your city..  I used excel/google sheets to do this quickly  
  Next, and this is optional, you can update the kliko.php with your names for the kliko's, I used the dutch words 
  Once that is done go into Better Logic and create 2 new variables, i called them "Kliko_vandaag" & "Kliko_morgen"
  and created the following flow with 2 "GET JSONpath Better Logic" (one for today & one for tomorrow) 
  
  In the first field put the <url to the kliko page>" in the second enter "$.vandaag" and in the last the corresponding BL variable.
  Lastly I let it run just after midnight so the variable is updated in time for me to use it in the morning  
  
  
  
  
  
  Last step is to make the other flows that will use the two variables, but i'll leave that up to you
         
• techniman Member

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  Since Buienradar has an open API I created a page/script for that as well.  
  Requirements are the same as the above so I won't list them here 
  next you need to save the following file to your server :
  https://gist.github.com/Radiotechniman/019be9126ab1af1f2bcaba3b6023fc93
  
  Next have a look at the file and optionally update the "rainthresholds" and or "lat&lon" values 
  once that's completed, I'd advise you to call the URL to see that it works :-) 
  
  Please note you can call the page with "http://ipadres/buien.php?lat=xxx&lon=yyy" that's why the above is optional
  The page will give you a JSON file with the data; 
  
  Location: I could not find any way of extracting homey's location, since I need it anyway I might as well expose it for future use.
  Bool: selection of boolean values, might be handy  
  RainBy: amount of rainfall in mm/h , for current 60 minutes (hour), next hour and by minutes as of now   
  SeverityLevel:  a rain level from 0 to 4,  I used the same as on the website 0 = 0-2 / 1= 2-5 / 2 = 5 -10 etc.  
  HomeyQuestions: should speak for them self (see what I did there;-) )
  
  
  
  another example but with the minutes & homey's responses
  
  
  
  If there is enough requests I might add the other questions as well 
  
  Please note the website is updated every 5 minutes, so there is no need to refresh the page more than that
  As how to plug this into homey. .
   
  I created a flow and run it every 5 minutes,  in the action column add a "GET JSON trigger object" card from the http app. 
  
  Next create the betterlogic variables you want to use and then make a new flow with a "JSON object" trigger
  and the "JSONpath Better Logic" action where you specify the complete path 
  e.g.
  $.homeyquestions.whenstart
  $.homeyquestions.whenstop 
  
  
  
  Lastly create the "question" flows, otherwise it won't work  :-)