Home Switch

About Home Switch Android App

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


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