From ee8ecdcb57b4eacef7eb713f3db5141c74c7896c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ron Schaeffer <ron@ronschaeffer.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:40:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Home Assistant RESTful command example (#194)

More appropriate place in the docs for this PR https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/8780
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 docs/external_api_rest.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/external_api_rest.md b/docs/external_api_rest.md
index 03a3962e..3e2bf12d 100644
--- a/docs/external_api_rest.md
+++ b/docs/external_api_rest.md
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ headers = {
 response = get(url, headers=headers)
 print(response.text)
 ```
+Another option is to use the Restful Command component https://www.home-assistant.io/components/rest_command/ in a Home Assistant automation or script.
+
+```yaml
+turn_light_on:
+  url: http://localhost:8123/api/states/light.study_light
+  method: POST
+  headers: 
+    authorization: 'Bearer ABCDEFGH'
+    content-type: 'application/json'
+  payload: '{"state":"on"}'
+```
 
 Successful calls will return status code 200 or 201. Other status codes that can return are: