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RESTful API
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.. image:: ../images/rest-api-icon-blue2.jpg
  :width: 150
  :alt: Restful API logo

The Gateway communicates via MQTT and publishes and listens to a number of topics.

However, there is also a very powerful RESTful API available.
This means you now can send HTTP commands with GET and POST/PUT like 

.. code-block:: rest

  http://ems-esp/api?device=<device>&cmd=<command>&data=<data>&id=<id>

See `Proddy's EMS-ESP Wiki`_ for all the details on the API.


.. target-notes::

.. _`Proddy's EMS-ESP Wiki`: https://emsesp.github.io/docs/Commands/#http