I've developed Simply Command It specifically for iOS and have been using my phone, mainly, while developing. That said you can also use it on your iPad and iMac too. Currently a lot of the front end is shared between the devices but if there's interest I can focus on one over the others.

If you switch from HTTP to HTTPS it should work.

Troubleshooting with MacOS

Back when I was creating the app and trying to figure out why a command wasn't working and what I needed to include I used NetCat nc through the command line to help me out. This needed me to both run NetCat through the terminal, use this app on my computer, and go edit the command.

To break it down I first went into my app, running on my computer, where I switched the host/ip address to localhost and changed the protocol from https to http. Then in the terminal I ran nc -l 80 so it would listen on port 80 for the command to go through. I then switched back to the macOS app and ran the command. This is what I saw in the terminal:

❯ nc -l 80
PATCH /v1/devices/aaaaaaaaaa? HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/json
User-Agent: SimplyCommandIt/1 CFNetwork/1498.700.2 Darwin/23.6.0
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Content-Length: 82
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Authorization: Bearer aaaaaaaaaa

"eyJ0aGVybWFsX2NvbnRyb2xfc3RhdHVzIjoiYWN0aXZlIiwic2V0X3RlbXBlcmF0dXJlX2YiOjcyfQ=="⏎

In this above specific case I was running a PATCH command and had thought I included all the required information. With these results I quickly saw that my JSON information was base64 encoded and once I stopped encoding it the command worked fine. In case it didn't I ran it again with NetCat and here's the results with the JSON text looking good:

❯ nc -l 80

PATCH /v1/devices/aaaaaaaaaa? HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/json
User-Agent: SimplyCommandIt/1 CFNetwork/1498.700.2 Darwin/23.6.0
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Content-Length: 66
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Authorization: Bearer aaaaaaaaaa

"{\"thermal_control_status\":\"active\",\"set_temperature_f\":72}"⏎

This was an error while developing the app so you shouldn't have such a complicated issue. I wanted to show you this though in case it helps you debug your issue. I hope it's something simply you an easily add, alter, or remove in the app to make it work great. That said if it's something more serious that needs an app update or if you need more help feel free to reach out at: mail@simplykyra.com.

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