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Rest Sensor - follow redirects

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I'm trying to get the REST Sensor to work with Nest, using Postman it works perfectly. I have the Authorisation code and the URL. With PRTG I get "expected status 200 OK but got 401 Unauthorized.". From reading the nest site this is likely to be that PRTG isn't following the redirect URL given back to it for the initial response.

https://developer-api.nest.com/devices/thermostats is the URL Sending either Authorisation settings or a custom header with the Bearer code fails.

https://developers.nest.com/reference/error-messages towards the bottom (under 401) implies Nest are using redirection: https://developers.nest.com/guides/api/how-to-handle-redirects supports this.

Does the REST sensor follow redirects? And is there a way of making this work?

Thanks!

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Created on Nov 18, 2018 6:56:56 PM



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As of right now, the sensor is not following redirects, unfortunately. It's successor will, but it will take quite some time until it's finished. I'm afraid that you'll need to use PowerShell and Invoke-WebRequest to query the Nest Thermostat(s) for now.

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Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Nov 19, 2018 11:36:09 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Thanks for the clarification.

As a work-around I'm using the curl command in a scheduled task to pull the json file every few minutes and upload that to a local webserver. I'm them querying this with PRTG. Works quite nicely, but not elegantly.

Created on Nov 19, 2018 8:07:01 PM



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Glad you got a workaround going :) If it works and saved you time, elegance doesn't matter :)

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Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Nov 20, 2018 6:21:07 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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