Indigo Domotics

I'm looking for a good solution to monitor temperature in a few rooms, plus maybe some motion sensors attached to gates. I came across http://wirelesstag.net

The price is good, and they have a very robust set of APIs and sensors.

Anyone try these out? Doesn't look like any mention of them on the boards.

Thanks.

Karl was looking for ideas for his next plugin...

Yeah, I tried them and am somewhat sure my discussion about them is in an old post on here somewhere.

They worked well for a short time and I was excited. Then they started dropping off the network. I contacted the manufacturer and they sent more. Same thing. After that, their advice was something like, "It's not a big deal, just a software thing. All you need to do is disassemble the tag and then remove and reinsert the battery."

Gee, that will be a big comfort when the one on my dog's collar stopped working and I never knew that he dug out of the backyard a few hours ago.

I asked for a refund and they told me to return them. I did so, and they never responded to me again. No refund. No response to my many emails, nothing. They still have my $100+ and I still have nothing.

I tried to get some info on their Api No repose yet. Still trying.



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Yeah, I found your old post on them. Sounds no good.

Just thought I'd say thanks to those that went before and provided a warning. They really look good from their web site, but the info here waves me off.

I just ordered the motion/temperature tag and the receiver unit. It cost me about $50.00 for everything. My goal was to be able to monitor temperature in a Hot Tub.

Ordering was easy, delivery just a bit slow but not unreasonable. I contacted customer support and was able to get a person speaking broken english. He looked up my order and was able to confirm that it would go out the next day. I received numerous shipping updates and was impressed with their automation. This feels like a small startup company but I see that they have been around for awhile so they must be doing something right.

I received the order in a surprisingly small package. The setup was straight forward and simple through my iPhone.

I put the tag into a small water-tight Tupperware style container, tossed it into the hot tub and it has worked flawlessly ever since. I am getting good solid temperature readings (after an easy calibration) and I get a motion notification when the HotTub pump stirs the water when the heating cycle begins. At first, I thought this was a bit silly but have decided it's nice to know the schedule (for heating the spa) I have set up in Indigo is firing perfectly.

My next goal will be to figure out a way for Indigo to poll the tag data. All calls to tags are done through their web server. I don't think there is a way to talk directly to the receiver or the tag... it's all done through their server.

They have some documentation about the API at http://wirelesstag.net/apidoc.html but I don't really know much about AJAX or JSON so I have hit my competency level.

I was able to create a web page and store it on my web site. When I pull the page up I get the the temperature in Fahrenheit and display it on the web page. I will post my code below.

What would be nice is if I could issue a curl command within Indigo to snag that number generated by my web page then add it to a variable. I will be working on that but if you have the JSON/AJAX/CURL chops perhaps you could assist.

I think there is a lot of potential here. Care to dive in?

Wireless Tags can be found at: http://wirelesstag.net

Here is the obscured code from my two PHP pages. I cobbled this together from WirelessTags documentation.

This page presents just the number....

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<?php require('HotTubTagTemp.php'); ?>
<div class="TheTemp">
<?php echo $TheTemp;?>
</div>

This is the page on the code which generates the data...

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<!--
This page is a support page for Indigo Home Automation. It connects Wiresless Tags
temperature info and makes it available when it is called via a CURL command
and places it into a variable on the Rosi Server
 -->

<html lang="en">
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
   <title></title>
   <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
   
   <script>
   $.ajaxSetup({
   type: "POST",
   contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
   cache: false,
   dataType: "json",
   xhrFields: {
      withCredentials: true
   }
});

$.ajax({url: "https://my.wirelesstag.net/ethLogShared.asmx/GetLatestTemperatureRawDataByUUID",
        data: JSON.stringify({uuid: "MyUUIDGetsInsertedHere"}),
        success: function (retval, textStatus) {
            $("#displayx").text(((retval.d.temp_degC * 1.8) + 32).toFixed(0));
            $("#datetime").text(retval.d.time);
        },
        error: function (xhr, textStatus, exception) {
            alert(textStatus);
        }
       });
</script>   


</head>
<body>

       
<?php $TheTemp = ('<span id="displayx" style="font-size: 36px;"></span>');
echo $TheTemp;
?>

</body>
</html>