Ideas Needed

[MilkShake]

Hi,
So I build a magic mirror with MMM-AssistantMk2 and it works pretty good. I have the assistant/mirror integrated with the following:

Roborock vacuumers (1 on each floor)
Siemens EQ9 automatic coffeemachine
Hue Lighting
Video feed from the gate camera (doorbird 101D)

So, I got the assistant to recognize the open gate “Open Gate” command and respond with “Ok, Opening the front gate”. However, in order to actually open the front gate, a HTTP GET needs to be sent to the gate camera. I can do that with a python script on the Raspberry PI, however in order to get the assistant to call that script I would need to do port forwards in my firewall, which I would rather not.

I need some way to interact with the mirror, so it calls the python script. It could be a physical button but I am looking for alternatives.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Best
MilkShake

[sdetweil]

@MilkShake why do you need a python script to issue a get?

in javascript in a browser, use the builtin fetch function

fetch(url).then((info){})

as u have the javascript to issue a message. its a one liner, maybe 5… i don’t know what the python needs to do

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch

[MilkShake]

It doesn’t really matter how I do it. The point is that it has to be done from LAN, so I need a way to interact with the mirror and get it to fire the script.

[MilkShake]

@sdetweil this is two lines:

import requests

x = requests.get('http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@192.168.1.XXX/bha-api/open-door.cgi')
print(x.status_code)

[retroflex]

@MilkShake Isn’t the mirror on the same LAN? In that case you don’t have to do any port forwards.

[sdetweil]

@MilkShake right, but now you gotta figure out how to execute it and u can’t do that from the browser, so now you need a node_helper and all that communication, and launching the ting in the background, etc,etc,etc)

[MilkShake]

@sdetweil I’m not following your point. I get it that I could do the GET from javascript instead of running a script, but the rest you might elaborate a bit more on :)

[sdetweil]

@MilkShake show me your script that is called when the action occurs

[MilkShake]

@sdetweil my whole point is, since the action happens on the google assistant I would need to do port forwards in my firewall to be able to call a LAN URL with a GET method. I guess it would be possible to catch the event locally on the mirror and then call the python script or do the GET method in some other manner, but I don’t know how to do that.

One option would be to just add a physical button to the raspberry pi and when pressed it runs the GET method. It just annoys me that you can make the assistant understand a command, but not utilize it locally on LAN.

[MilkShake]

@retroflex The mirror and the gate are on the same LAN. The assistant understands the “Open Gate” command and replies with “Ok, Opening the gate”, but if I were to use a Google Action to do the GET, it would come from the internet.

I don’t know how to catch the event locally on the mirror. If I did, I would just call the python script and the gate would open.

[sdetweil]

@MilkShake the actions run locally on the mirror, they are TRIGGERED from the module… not as callbacks I don’t think
(i haven’t done that myself, but it seemed logical before) the old recipe stuff

you just create a little script in maybe the new A2D but old assistant had it to to trigger events…

here is fiddling with the radio on the mirror

https://github.com/bugsounet/MMM-Assistant2Display/wiki/Radio_help

[BKeyport]

How I do URL calls in python is through urllib.request - import that library then:

urllib.request.urlopen("http://pi.hole:60001/remote?action=MONITORTOGGLE")

Depends on how far outside you wanna go outside the MM ecosystem.

edit: reminds me, I gotta re-write that for the new config, pi-hole and the mirror being two different units now.

[sdetweil]

@BKeyport but u have to use a helper to launch the python code…
way overhead for a fetch or post

[BKeyport]

@sdetweil True, if you’re staying in the MM ecosystem - in my case, I couldn’t get the modules I wanted to work the way I wanted, so I wrote up a python script to cover it, and it runs independently of MM

He wanted a python method, so I gave him options.

[A Former User]

maybe by using traits (google actions)
example of recipes there

this doc can help to make it

[MilkShake]

I went the way of dataplicity.io/wormhole, NGINX, IFTTT and MMM-NotificationTrigger. That way I should be able to use a webhook to execute the python script.

[MilkShake]

@Bugsounet Thanks Bugs! I will look into that when I have time for it.