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Hi,

I am not a RaZberry owner (yet) and the bottom line is this: I am seeking to use a retro computer (a non PC/Mac computer, with ethernet card but without possibility to use SSL) to control a Z-Wave network through the Raspberry Pi/RaZberry by using the HTTP/JSON API. However, seeing some worrying news in forum posts and certain info in the changelog made me hesitate with this plan and now I need to check up on a few things before proceeding:

1) I read in changelog that HTTP requests needs to be authenticated as of 2.1.1
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Question A: Does the HTTP/JSON API thus always require authentication or is there some way to enable unrestricted access to JSON API on a local (and trusted) network?

Question B: If authentication is an absolute must to utilize the JSON API, is there an up-to-date description on the authentication process somewhere?


2) For latest release (2.2.1) I saw these notes: "API changes: - Authentication process with Secure Login.
- Replaced http protocol with https for external APIs."
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Question: Exactly what does external APIs refer to here?


I'd really appreciate any further information regarding my questions, and while I did search around the forum before posting I understand there is always the chance of me missing some already existing thread with the info I am looking for - if so, feel free to point me in that direction

Thanks in advance!


Regards,

/Joakim

I use Python on the RPi itself to do some of mine. It's simple HTTP basic authentication and shouldn't be an issue for you.

Thanks for the reply! Are you using 2.2.2 or an older version?

Basic authentication should indeed not cause any problems, I already made some tests with that to communicate with Domotizc. Basic authentication should work the same anywhere I assume, so this make me a bit more confident that I can get somewhere with Razberry as well.