Create a plugin. It will only be a few lines of code.

Or

Use the telnet server.

The telnet server makes the most sense. Sinply send the command with a terminated \r\n

The plugin would end up reproducing the telnet server. If you're idea is to have the watch control the robot, I could consider what it takes to add the telnet server to the mobile app.

Thanks DJ.

I must have been mis-remembering that this could be done via HTTP.

I explicitly don't want this in the mobile app (although others might). It is for providing remote control of a robot that will have an embedded Windows computer.

Short term, I can use the Tasker plugin to create buttons for the Telnet commands, and I will add this to my list of things I want to do with the plugin when I finally have time to learn a little C#. In fact, it fits perfectly with my plans to make an IFTTT plugin, so I might be able to kill two birds with one stone.

Alan

Is Tasker the name of the plugin you want to create?

Is the idea to not send ezscript commands and send other commands instead? Is this because ezscript commands are too lengthy? Ie forward() or stop()? Would your commands be shorter in length or something?

I'd like to get a better understanding of the initiative to use a plugin instead of the telnet server.

Tasker is an Android app that can do many many things based on many many triggers. It also has a plugin architecture. One of its plugins is a Telnet client, where I can set up specific sequences of tenet commands (a built in function is Get URL, which is where I was starting).

You can use Tasker to create simple Android apps that execute these tasks, or trigger them from any number of other events that Android can see.

There is also an Android Wear Smartwatch plugin for Tasker that can make simple UI's.

So what I am going to build with this, is a simple UI similar to what you did for the Apple Watch that sends forward, reverse, left, right, and stop commands (and maybe some others) to my robot from my new LG Urbane smartwatch (that was just delivered 30 minutes ago).

I probably don't need to make a plugin for this capability except for the fact that Tasker and the two Tasker plugins needed to make this work are all paid apps, and on the more expensive side for Android, and takes a bit of configuration to set up, so if others want to do the same, it will be more complex than if I can write a plugin and an Android Wear app.

I have also been thinking of how to best do an IFTTT plugin. It is easy using the IFTTT Maker channel to have a robot send events, but more difficult to make it respond. If I ARC could take actions based on GET requests without opening a web page, then the Maker channel could be used for both directions of communication, so building a integration web service plugin would be a nice challenge for me.

Alan

Alan

Ah i see.

The ifft I have looked into. I was so frustrated with their terrible api that I wasn't able to continue developing.

If you were to make one, the plugin would only be difficult because their api is so terrible. Thinking about reading their api pages again gives me the shakes!

That is why I wanted to take advantage of the existing Maker channel. As long as I can make the web page "internet visible" which is not difficult in my environment since I have my own domain and Dynamic DNS service, the Maker channel can do a GET or POST request. So all I would be to create a web interface that can pass credentials and script commands from a single GET or POST.

Would not be easy for all ARC users, but with good documentation I think it could be useful.

It can also be done with EventGhost hosting the web commands and sending to ARC with the telnet interface, but that adds another layer that can break, and more to configure.

Alan

I use IFTTT a lot to trigger some actions in and by ARC, but I have to follow complex paths for that. I use recipes with Dropbox: I make ARC write files/take pictures in Dropbox to trigger external actions by IFTTT and the other way I make Dropbox write .txt files and ARC read them in scripts.

I would love to see an IFTTT plugin (no pressure Alan ) and it's a shame their api is so terrible. (It is also a shame I am not capable of writing a plugin, but that's another story )

Fred

At this point, I think you are as capable of writing a plugin as I am. I need to learn C#. I am a fairly accomplished VB6 developer, but VB6 is so old it can't even be installed on anything newer than WindowsXP, and the new languages are completely different, so I am pretty much starting from scratch.

Alan