[Reactor] Use VirtualEntityController actions to drive a Reolink spotlight

[therealdb]

Build 24343 has fully HTTP actions, so cool things could be created (see docs). I've recently changed a couple of cams because better definition and I've found tha Reolink has a couple of cams that have spotlights. While the spotlights are driven by motion (so the cam could record in color), I wanted to drive them directly, so in case of any "security" event, like alarm on, door open, etc, I could use the lights to have a better video and make - you know - light.

So, if you want to use HTTP actions in VirtualController, just go to config, entities under your VirtualEntityController section in reactor.yaml, and add this:

        - id: cams_retro_spotlights
          name: "Retro Cam - Spotlights"
          template: Binary Switch
         # update the status at interval
          http_request:
            interval: 900 # 15m
            url: "http://192.168.1.31/cgi-bin/api.cgi?user=foo&password=foo"
            method: "POST"
            force_json: true
            headers:
              "Content-Type": "application/json"
              "Accept": "application/json"
            body: '[{"cmd": "GetWhiteLed", "action": 0 , "param": { "channel": 0 }}]'
          capabilities:
            power_switch:
              attributes:
                state:
                  expr: "isnull( response ) ? null : response[0]?.value?.WhiteLed?.state == 1"
                  default: false
              actions:
                "on":
                  http_request:
                    url: "http://192.168.1.31/cgi-bin/api.cgi?user=foo&password=foo"
                    method: "POST"
                    force_json: true
                    headers:
                      "Content-Type": "application/json"
                      "Accept": "application/json"
                    body: '[{"cmd": "SetWhiteLed", "param": { "WhiteLed": {"bright" : 100, "channel": 0, "mode": 1, "state": 1}}}]'
                  target: state
                  expr: "isnull( response ) ? null: response[0]?.value?.rspCode == '200'"
                "off":
                  http_request:
                    url: "http://192.168.1.31/cgi-bin/api.cgi?user=foo&password=foo"
                    method: "POST"
                    force_json: true
                    headers:
                      "Content-Type": "application/json"
                      "Accept": "application/json"
                    body: '[{"cmd": "SetWhiteLed", "param": { "WhiteLed": {"bright" : 100, "channel": 0, "mode": 1, "state": 0}}}]'
                  target: state
                  expr: "isnull( response ) ? null : response[0]?.value?.rspCode == '200' ? false : null"

Reolink has API where you have to post a JSON and the response will give you a JSON (in theory). It's not really JSON, so force_json: true will do the trick for you. I'm lefting this as an example of cool things you could do with the new capabilites added/documented in 24343. HTH.