Hi guys - I receive an email each week giving me the oil tank level. Would like to parse this using zapier and then get the result into Vera or openLuup. A dummy device perhaps. Any way this might work? Using Altui/openLuup and have Historian running with grafana so would be good additional data to have.
If you just want to push a value from outside, no plugins are needed. Just create a device using the generic sensor and update the variable via http. I do this way for a custom app pushing its values to virtual humidity/temperature/level sensors.
If you want to read it from an http endpoint, @akbooer has the right answer for you.
Fantastic thank you. Do you maybe know of a good place to store the data online? Punching way above my weight here but thought i’d give it a try : ) Google drive maybe?
Yes, this is probably easier to access this way (if you remove the authentication from the document, I suppose), with SiteSensor pulling the value as @akbooer is suggesting.
Thanks! - got it reading an automatically updating file but no data coming through yet. Any idea how I should be formatting the saved data for a Text response?
Thanks guys - got it done