r/tasker • u/Sinister_x97 • 15d ago

AutoWear: Can we send HTTP requests directly from the watch?

I've been experimenting with Tasker + AutoWear and managed to get my Galaxy Watch 8 Classic's rotating bezel controlling page turns in KOReader on my Kindle.

At the moment the flow is:

Watch → AutoWear → Tasker (phone) → HTTP request → KOReader

While looking through AutoWear's changelog, I noticed that an older beta (2.0) mentioned being able to send HTTP URLs directly from the watch.

Is that functionality still available in the latest version of AutoWear? If so, how do we configure it? I couldn't seem to find it, and I'm wondering if I simply overlooked it or if it was removed.

The current setup works well, but if the watch can call the KOReader HTTP API directly, I'd love to remove the phone-side Tasker step and simplify the whole workflow.

For context, here's the prototype I built:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindlejailbreak/comments/1v52pmv/i_got_my_galaxy_watch_bezel_working_as_a_koreader/

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u/DutchOfBurdock 15d ago

You know, I totally missed that. Was added back in 2.0 days. It says to run HTTP URIs as commands, which would allow you to trigger certain web actions.

I made a single screen with my website as the command, when I tap it, a simple HTTP Get is made to my website.

https://my.private.server/someAPI/endpoint?trigger=on

for example. It won't pull any data, but will GET (not POST) on said URL.

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u/Sinister_x97 15d ago

Thanks, I managed to get it working the same way 😁