Unipi 1.1 - physical press button - Philips Hue
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Hello,
I'm currently looking to purchase a Unipi 1.1, but I would like to confirm certain things first. I have some physical press buttons in my house (to switch on/off the lights), and my goal would be to connect them to the Unipi on the digital inputs (pressing one of the button would activate a specific DI).
I would then write a piece of code (the language doesn't matter) to intercept the activation of the DIs and to trigger a REST request on my Philips Hue hub: this request would be to switch on/off certain lights.
The important part is the communication between the Unipi and the Philips Hue hub:
- on the Unipi, will it be possible to intercept the activation of a DI and to react by triggering a REST request (via cURL for example)?
- how fast would be the process at the Unipi level? (the time between the DI is detected as 'on' and the triggering of the REST request)
Thanks!
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Hi @Adrewyew,
this is definitely possible. I would suggest to take look into Node-RED, which already does this in very fast fashion - in 10s of miliseconds. We have a Node-RED image ready with a default projects which already reads the states of the DIs. Please, follow this tutorial: https://kb.unipi.technology/en:sw:03-3rd-party:nodered:installation-unipi11Best regards,
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Hello Martin,
Perfect, many thanks for your answer!
Best regards,
