Indigo Domotics

This feature request is to optionally capture the contents of the scanned email either in a variable or postgres DB.

Use Case:

Email gets scanned and contains information about whether school is closed or government is closed and an action group executes to trigger the right Indigo house mode.

Use Better Email plugin. The message contents are stored in the device state, and you can use a trigger to do whatever you want with it.

+1

FlyingDiver wrote:

Use Better Email plugin. The message contents are stored in the device state, and you can use a trigger to do whatever you want with it.

I'll give it a shot

ryanbuckner wrote:

FlyingDiver wrote:

Use Better Email plugin. The message contents are stored in the device state, and you can use a trigger to do whatever you want with it.

I'll give it a shot

This solution worked great. Here's what I was able to do:

1) Step 1 - Better Email scans the email and triggers when the "from" field matches
2) The trigger runs a quick python script to extract a URL and push it to an Indigo variable
3) Another trigger sees the variable change and launches a python script that visits the URL from the variable (email) to complete a daily survey

This saves me lots of compliance issues because I have a survey I must submit each morning. The URL changes every day but my results are always the same.

ryanbuckner wrote:

This solution worked great. Here's what I was able to do:

1) Step 1 - Better Email scans the email and triggers when the "from" field matches
2) The trigger runs a quick python script to extract a URL and push it to an Indigo variable
3) Another trigger sees the variable change and launches a python script that visits the URL from the variable (email) to complete a daily survey

This saves me lots of compliance issues because I have a survey I must submit each morning. The URL changes every day but my results are always the same.

Excellent.

Though I do wonder why you're doing that with two different scripts, rather than all in one script. Unless there's a reason you need to save the URL in the variable?

to save it for rerun in case it fails

ryanbuckner wrote:

to save it for rerun in case it fails

Ah. Good point.