Write Fibaro Global Variable

[RobinH (Robin)]

Hi guys,

Quick question, I’m trying to set up a settings page for my ventilation system, I’ve placed a humidity sensor in my bathroom and want to control the time and speed of the ventilation with it. The goal is to change the time or level of humidity.

I got to the point where I can load a variable from my fibaro home center 3 but I’m not getting it to work that I can write to it. I’ve tried a data setter in a button but that does not seem to work.

Any tips or suggestions?

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

There’s a plugin for that:

Fibaro Global Variables

Attached is a Plugin that can read & write to Fibaro Global Variables. https://manuals.fibaro.com/knowledge-base-browse/rest-api/#bkb-h22 To install the plugin, use the Plugin Import utility in the Designer. The import process will ask you for the Host, Port, Username, & Password of the Fibaro controller. Included is a generic Tile Template for this device. To add this to your project, simply download the file & then copy and paste it into the Pages folder with the other XAML files. GlobalVa…

[RobinH (Robin)]

Hi,

Thanks for your fast responds, I was a little busy at the time being.

I already installed the plugin that you suggested but I forgot to mention that in my question. See the attached images.

Did I do something wrong maybe?

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Are you using an “admin” account?

As Frank just mentioned in this thread, you probably will need to use the controller’s admin account in order to write to a global variable.

Fibaro variable

No, I didn’t need to write a GlobalVariable until now and for the moment it is just one variable. As far as I know you need admin rights to write global variables via the API and that is something I don’t want to do, using admin priveleges in 3rd party software.

You can use his work around to perform the variable writes in a scene & then have Home Remote trigger the scene.

@Frank_Weijnen

For now I have found a workaround via Fibaro scenes. One for increasing a set point, one for decreasing the set point and another scene for start using that variable.

Although, that might not work for you. For the HC3, I’m pretty certain you need the “admin” account to execute a scene too. You may have no choice but to use the “admin” account.

Fibaro HC3 - Scene activate

Fibaro support: It is exactly like you are saying. Unless you are admin you can’t call the API. I will forward your case to our developers but unfortunately as a support engineer I cannot specify when or if this feature will be implemented. In my opinion a major security flaw. Roger

[RobinH (Robin)]

Yes I’m using an admin account.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Try using this revised plugin:

FibaroGlobalVariables_v2.plugin (2.0 KB)

[RobinH (Robin)]

Installed it.

When the button is clicked I get an error ‘code 400 bad request’

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Try adding a “.toString()” in the PUT request:

Fibaro variable

Try using the Clicked event of a standard button so we know it’s not an issue with your Toggle configuration. Buttons only need 1 trigger vs the 4 you need for a toggle. If it doesn’t work with a standard button, try adding “.toString()” to the value in the HTTP PUT request. http.put(baseURL + "/globalVariables/" + device.Id, { name: device.Id, value: value, readOnly: false, isEnum: false }, { auth: credentials, headers: { 'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' } }); http.put(bas…

[RobinH (Robin)]

Did that, error still there.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

I’m not exactly sure how a variable write is performed on the HC3. Maybe send this question to the Fibaro support staff or raise it in the Fibaro forum.

How to write to Global Variable with CURL?

See you can figure out how to do this with CURL. Then test it on your PC to prove it actually works. Once that’s done then show me the CURL & I can make whatever changes I need to make in that plugin script.

All Windows 10 machines already have CURL installed. You can also download it here.
https://curl.haxx.se/

[Frank_Weijnen]

I managed to set a GlobalVariable with Windows 10 curl.
U MUST use the admin user, otherwise it will NOT work.
Here is my curl command I tested it with:

The name of the GlobalVariable is: VentilatieRestTijd

curl -v -X PUT -u admin:password -d “{“name”: “VentilatieRestTijd”, “value”: “123”}” http://192.168.178.4/api/globalVariables/VentilatieRestTijd

(The syntax is a bit different in Windows than it is in linux.)

Make sure to also include the variable name in the url otherwise you get a: 400 Bad Request.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

Great! Now can you test writing to that with the plugin & see if it works? Please test both the original & version 2.

The only thing it’s doing differently is its also setting the “readOnly” & “isEnum” properties as well. Those shouldn’t make a difference but we can try removing them if it’s not working.

[Frank_Weijnen]

Not sure what you mean with Version 2.
I tested is with the version I downloaded last weekend from the HomeRemote website.

I got it working by changing the following:

In the “OnChangedRequest” function I removed: , headers: { ‘content-type’: ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ } and that did the trick.

http.put(baseURL + “/globalVariables/” + device.Id, { name: device.Id, value: value, readOnly: false, isEnum: false }, { auth: credentials });

I also tested removing readOnly and isEnum and that also worked.

[Frank_Weijnen]

Almost forgot.

Is there a way to rewrite the script to use a basic authentication header like:

Basic ZnJhbms6d2Vpam5uZQ==

In that case the admin password is no longer visible in the project.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

@Frank_Weijnen

In the “ OnChangedRequest ” function I removed: , headers: { ‘content-type’: ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ } and that did the trick.

Thanks. I went ahead & removed that from that plugin code.

Fibaro Global Variables

Attached is a Plugin that can read & write to Fibaro Global Variables. https://manuals.fibaro.com/knowledge-base-browse/rest-api/#bkb-h22 To install the plugin, use the Plugin Import utility in the Designer. The import process will ask you for the Host, Port, Username, & Password of the Fibaro controller. Included is a generic Tile Template for this device. To add this to your project, simply download the file & then copy and paste it into the Pages folder with the other XAML files. GlobalVa…

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

@Frank_Weijnen

Is there a way to rewrite the script to use a basic authentication header like:

Yes. Here’s a plugin that removes the credentials & hard-codes the Basic header.

FibaroGlobalVariables_BasicHeader.plugin (1.8 KB)

[RobinH (Robin)]

Hi guys, thanks for the help so far.

Maybe it is me, reinstalled the plugin, set a new trigger, tried some things you suggested, still get an error (400 bad request ). I’m using the admin account for the connection, so I don’t see a problem there. Reading the variable value is going fine. Writing to it gets me an error.

Can you see if I did something wrong?

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

It could be that this changed between versions HC2 & HC3.

@Frank_Weijnen what version of controller are you running?

I recommend doing what Frank did. Experiment with CURL. Verify you can get it working with that. I don’t know that the request Frank showed earlier will work with CURL on Windows 10. You need to escape quotes on Windows. So your request will look something like this. Just open up the Windows command prompt & send this command.

curl -v -X PUT -u admin:password -d "{\"name\": \"VentilatieRestTijd\", \"value\": \"123\"}" http://192.168.178.4/api/globalVariables/VentilatieRestTijd

[Frank_Weijnen]

I am running HC2 on version 4.590.

I just downloaded and installed the new GlobalVariabels script and it works fine for me.

@bill I also tried your version with basic authentication but that one throws an error:

I also tried changing the script file with the proper data but still the same popup.

Regarding the curl request: The curl command in my reply was changed during the past command I guess. (Windows handles the quotes differently than linux.)
The one that you are showing in your reply works on Windows 10, I just tested it.
The option: -v is not required, it just gives you feedback on the command.

[bill (Bill Venhaus)]

I’m not sure why the plugin I posted that manually sets the Authorization header isn’t working. I just stepped through it & all looks good.