[SOLVED] ESP01 http request only working for port 80

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2018-05-01 by Thijsmans

I am trying to hook up an ESP01 to my smoke alarm like in this video and making it report to home-assistant, running on my pi. Home-assistant has an API which should make it possible for the ESP01 to alter a variable (input_boolean) and trigger other alarms.

However, the http-request only seems to be able to reach the pi on port 80. Which is a problem, since home-assistant listens to port 8123 (in my case, pihole listens to port 80).

  var wifi = require("Wifi");

  wifi.connect("SSID", {password:"PASS"}, function(e) { 
    if( ! e )
    {
      wifi.setHostname("SmokeAlarm-"+getSerial() );
      wifi.stopAP();
      
      var options = {
        host: 'xd-1',
        port: 80,
        path: '/api/',
        method: 'GET'
      };
      
      require("http").request( options, function (res) {
        res.on('data', function (data) { console.log(data); });
      }).end();
    }
  });

The path "/api/" does not exist on port 80 (pihole only uses /admin/*) and the ESP01 outputs the right error page, served by pihole. The script functions as it should.

The path "/api/" DOES exist on port 8123 - I can see it in any browser on any device in my network. When changing the port from 80 to 8123, the ESP01 shows nothing, except "=undefined".

I'm starting to lose it. Why is the request not coming through? Any thoughts?

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2018-05-04 by Thijsmans

Turns out the problem was not with the ESP01 or with Espruino, but with my malformed request :) The debugging methods from this thread made that clear (it showed a HTTP-400 header coming back).

For whoever finds it useful, this is how Espruino connects to Home Assistant:

  
  var wifi   = require("Wifi");
  var entity = 'smoke_kitchen';

  wifi.connect("SSID", {password:"PASS"}, function (e) { 
    if( ! e )
    {
      wifi.setHostname("SmokeAlarm-"+entity+"_"+getSerial() );
      
      var http = require("http");
      var data = JSON.stringify( {state:'on'} );
      
      var options = {
        host: 'HASS-HOST',
        port: 8123,
        path: '/api/states/input_boolean.' + entity,
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
          'Content-Length': data.length,
          'x-ha-access': 'Token if needed',
        },
      };
      
      var req = http.request( options, function (res) {
        console.log('Status: ' + res.statusCode);
        console.log( res );
      });
      
      req.write( data );
      req.end();
      
    } else
    { 
      console.log("Error connecting to wifi: ", e );
    }
  });