Capturing Response from ST Web Req Driver

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Via a Rule I am triggering a local HTTP GET via the ST Web Requestor Driver.

It does not look like the response is provided back to SharpTools. I can see the action happening successfully in SmartThings:

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What is confusing though I see something in SharpTools from days ago - but I can’t be sure exactly what triggered that data.

Am I missing something? I may just not fully understand how this works.

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Device commands in SmartThings don’t have a concept of directly responding with a value.

Instead, when you execute a command on a device, the device might respond by (asynchronously) updating an attribute. So in the case of the Web Requestor driver, it looks like it’s updating a ‘response’ attribute with information about the response.

The note at the bottom of the attribute list in your SharpTools screenshot explains the data being from a few days ago.

:warning: Grayed out attributes do not have event subscriptions and the values may be stale or outdated

If you haven’t used that attribute in a dashboard or as a trigger in a rule, it’s not subscribed and thus the data is from the last time the device was synced over to SharpTools.

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Thanks Josh. I think I get it now.

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@josh, I’m still struggling with this. With the attribute ‘response’ subscribed to in SharpTools, how can I then get that attribute contents populated in a variable?

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Since things are asynchronous with the Web Requestor, you could either:

  • Send the command, delay a few seconds, and then check the response to copy it into your variable
  • Setup a separate rule with the response changing as the trigger and then have the flow copy the value into your variable
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I’ve taken the two rule approach that you suggested. However, something is not quite right. I have the Web Requestor response both on a dashboard and in a rule yet the response (that is updating in SmartThings) is not updating in SharpTools. It did update when I added it to a dashboard initially but it hasn’t since.

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Can you send a note to support with the Device ID in question so we can take a closer look?

I tried setting up a test and the various attributes were updating as expected for me through a number of iterations. I’m wondering if something with the event subscription might have gotten out of whack since this would be something of a one-off event subscription with it being a unique custom capability. :thinking:

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Just sent.

Thanks Josh.