How to get notification of state change of web thing (button press)

Mozilla IoT
#1

I have a zigbee on / off button registered by my webthings service. It works perfectly. I would like to have an outside service get notified of when I user presses the button. Is this possible. I know there is an api to get (poll) the status of the button, but would prefer not to poll.

thanks

#2

You can use the websocket API on the gateway. It’s described in the spec.

#3

Thanks, I have started down that path, but am running into some issues.
Im first starting with the simple rest api, using postman and am getting unauthorized 401, when call X.x.x.x/things for example.
I see that I can create a access token , via the local token service, but when I create it, and place it into my authorization header in postman, I get a 403 error forbidden. Am I missing something here?, are there any examples of using the rest api as a client… via postman, / js/…etc?, thanks

#4

I see the examples that show up when I create the token, but neither of the js ones are working for me when running from node, nothing comes back,

#5

I think I got it working finally, the url must be https, not http that is shown in some of the examples…