Home Switch

Custom switches for private home server, Raspberry Pi, IoT, ...

This APP enables you to built up custom switches for your own home to switch whatever you want. But, this APP is a client only and requires an own web server which fulfills the requested switch events.

APP features:

   - a widget per switch

   - selectable switch functionality (act as button or switch)

   - SSL exceptions in case a self signed certificate will be used

   - support of ownDNS if there is no own domain available

   - option to keep the screen on

The web server can be anything like a Raspberry Pi with an installed and accessable Apache or Nginx web server that provides the switch-api as defined in the manual and process the switch requests (switch something on the device or bridge/translate it to another network/protocoll).

The app sends a request to the server switch API of the server by using URL parameters as shown in the follwing example:

http://www.myhome.com/switch-api.php?sw_action=set_state&sw_name=switch_a&sw_state=1

The server has to send a JSON fromated response, based on the switch request result, back to the APP as confirmation of successful switch operation or as an error/fail indication. Following example shows such a response:

 {

    "api" : "1.1",

    "action_reply" : "OK",

    "sw_name" : "switch_a",

    "sw_state" : "1"

 }

For further detailed information and a server switch-api example file, please have a look on the APP's website or APP integrated manual.

https://sites.google.com/view/soerinator-en/apps/home-switch

You can send me a mail if there is an additional language support of the APP needed.