Power Automate HTTP action, Rest API, and IOT 

Thanks, will do!

Excellent! Have a great day!

Very cool. 😎

Hey Kevin - Not sure where you are on your journey but I did get more detailed on APIs here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p8ErJU43N74.html Covered deeper JSON here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G6dU5me5h1o.html Cover SharePoint API here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JkcyiQ-OIkU.html What other API stuff would you like to see?

Awesome. Glad it helped. 🐶

Wes you are the best. Hope all is well and congrats on the new place.

Awesome, that is my goal. I am not a developer either so always fun to learn together.

Thanks BJ. I know this stuff is boring so I do my best to bring a touch of fun to it.

Happy to help Devang

More to come! I enjoyed the API stuff.

Glad to help. 😀

Awesome!

Glad it was helpful!

Wow, thank you!

You are very welcome. Glad it had lots of little tips to help.

Thanks. Premium isn't ideal but one $15 license should cover you for all of hte flows you need for you.

My pleasure!

Thanks, you are very kind.

@@ShanesCows Hey Shane, got "error -2002" "request timeout" any advise? Thank you!

🤓😎

My pleasure!

Glad to help. This is a fun video for sure.

I always love slipping in some small movie/tv reference 😍

I hope you enjoy it. The video was a lot of fun.

Not today. Everyone who uses the app has to have an account.

In your flow you can do parallel branches. I don't know if I have a video on it but that will let you run things in parallel.

Manny I haven't messed with this stuff in a long while. But here is what I tell you to try. Try using this with hard coded values for everything. Don't try to automate just use this JSOn, strip out all of the dynamic content and see if you can set the brightness to 25 and 100 manually. If you can then start to try working on making it dynamic. Hope this helps. { "method": "passthrough", "params": { "deviceId": "@{body('Parse_JSON_2')?['result']?['deviceList']?[0]?['deviceId']}", "requestData": { "system": { "set_relay_state": { "state": @{If(equals(outputs('Compose_to_Check_if_Brightness_is_over_100'),0),false,triggerBody()?['OnOrOff'])} } }, "smartlife.iot.dimmer": { "set_brightness": { "brightness": @{outputs('Compose_to_Check_if_Brightness_is_over_100')} } } }, "token": "@{body('Parse_JSON')?['result']?['token']}" } }

Happy to help John.

If you know the API but are just struggling with syntax I would ask Copilot or ChatGPT. Usually with Patch they have more complicated headers, might be something to look for.

Will do. Custom connector would be easier but it does change licensing. 😎

If I get my hands on any cool stuff like that I will for sure. :) Do you have recommendations on cheap sensors with APIs?

@@ShanesCows i have a scenario which might be ok for you. Light is off. Create request. Status waiting for approval. Light is yellow. Request is approved. Light is green. Rejected is red. Request is closed. Light is off. Then start new request and light goes on again.

@@ShanesCows Philips Hue light

You are welcome Sundra. Have a great day.

Interesting idea. 😎

You bet! This one was very fun for me to learn about.

The Tesla API needs to be done. :) Twilio I will ponder on. I haven't used it much.

@@ShanesCows I did the Twilio but the second I connect to Sharepoint it doesn't work. I believe because the connection header for the Twilio is using content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded but the sharepoint one using probably something else

I don't have one to play with. I was curious and did some poking. I think here is at least some clues as to where you might find it. github.com/python-kasa/python-kasa/issues/64 I think there is some kind of "child_num": 6 that you need to use.

@@ShanesCows I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I also reached out to Joshua who replied. Joshua Tzucker 6:27 PM (23 minutes ago) to me Hi Mark, No bother at all; always happy to help when I can. I have a few different posts and code snippets floating around the web related to Kasa - is this in regards to my Google Apps Script wrapper? Or cheat sheet? Regardless, although I don't own a power strip to test with, looking through some open-source repos and issue threads, I think I understand enough to provide an answer. It looks like the power strips use a combination of two IDs - the device ID, which corresponds to the entire strip, and a plug id / child id, which corresponds to each individual plug on the outlet. To turn individual plugs on and off, you need to pass both IDs, with the plug IDs pass through a special payload object under `requestData.context.child_ids`. If you only pass the device ID, then the API assumes you want to toggle the entire strip. I just updated my cheat sheet / documentation page with this extra information and an example POST request - you can find it here docs.joshuatz.com/random/tp-link-kasa/#endpoints-and-methods (scroll down to "Power Strip: Turn individual plugs on and off"). Let me know if this helps, or you are looking for more / different info. Regards, Joshua

Noted. Thanks

I replied to your other comment. Using HTTP action with SharePoint is not premium.

I respond to comments as I can. Guessing whatever you asked it wasn't a quick answer that is why I haven't responded yet. Sorry, I get 1000s of comments and I do my best to keep up

Fair request. I do need to dig deeper on those again. It is on the list, just to find the motivation now.

@@ShanesCows you the man !

Power BI would be the ideal answer. Second best might be to have a flow that does the crunching for you so you can just view. Something like the video I am about to find a link to.

Here is the video you need. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V1ThALavvf0.html

Shane Young Thanks Shane appreciate it!

I don’t know. I don’t have one of those to play with. 😑

If you have a Kasa device you install the app on your phone and create an account from there. That account is what you use.

@@ShanesCows thank you. That's what I needed. Now to get the device :)

The dimmer was a nice addition to my office but did require me doing electrical work. EEK! The smart plugs are super easy to use and just plug in so might be easier to just play with.

@@ShanesCows I got the mini plugs to work but haven't tackled installing the dimmer switch, yet

Yikes, I haven't done anything like that before. I have only used When HTTP received once and it wasn't anything too fancy.

@@ShanesCows Well - since I originally posted this message, I've discovered it can be done with a custom connector. Same same, just the reverse of the more common way of creating a custom connector..... Your videos are great btw ;-) You've spent many hours with me in my living room. ';-)

Actually managed to work this one out. Needed some azure app registrations and a service account. The way planner is set up now. The user needs to be an owner of a team before you can create the planner

Hey Sam glad you got it. Graph and SharePoint APIs are on my list for sure. :)

Nope, you will have to use the HTTP action.

@@ShanesCows is it a premium feature to use or no

I just ran that exact flow and it still works. Look for typos. :)

Thanks

Reading is for the birds. 😂

Sorry, sometimes I get too excited. You can always use the RU-vid controls n the bottom right corner to slow the speed. 😎

You bet! I hope you do something fun with the concepts.