Getting Loxone to talk to my Washing Machine

[toscal]

I have just got a Candy RapidO SimplyFi washer/Dryer. This can be controlled via an app on your phone or by Alexa. So have been investigating to see if Loxone can talk to it. At the moment I have got status of the machine, which is a good start. Here is what Loxone sees.

wmcstatus.jpg

Will add more once I have done more digging as regards commands etc.

[toscal]

Decided to answer another forum's thread here as that forum is more for Home assistant rather than Loxone. I was asked how I got my Candy machine statuses into Loxone
So here goes.
You need to set up a Virtual HTTP Input.
then in the URl field you type http://washing machine ip address/http-read.json?encrypted=0
Then for the polling I have put 60 seconds
with timeout set to 3999
and permitted time outs set to 0
Under the virtual http input you create a Virtual input Command.
This example uses a VI command called Washing Machine Status
now in command recognition type
**"MachMd":"\v**
You then connect this VI to a status block.
Then set up AI1 V1 == Value 1 Status Text Not Yet Started
repeat for as many values as you want. (this will make more sense when you have opened up the status block)
2=Program Running
3= Paused
5= Delayed Start
7= Finished
If anyone is interested I might do a quick tutorial on it.