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Example 1 Set up a task for a device to install a custom app on its next check-in.<\/h4>\n
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  1. User logs in to www.devicehq.com and uploads a custom app.<\/li>\n
  2. API client contacts the API and does GET \/api\/v2\/apps.<\/li>\n
  3. Within the retrieved list, the account client fetches the ID field from the desired app.<\/li>\n
  4. The API client makes a request: POST \/api\/v2\/devices\/{device- id}\/task, with the payload completed with the necessary data (app id, app version, etc.). The request succeeds.<\/li>\n
  5. The device checks in to DeviceHQ<\/li>\n
  6. The device retrieves the task, and completes it by installing the app.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Example 2 Set up a task for a device to install an app config<\/h4>\n
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    1. User logs in to www.devicehq.com and uploads a custom app.<\/li>\n
    2. API client contacts API and does GET \/api\/v2\/apps<\/li>\n
    3. Within the retrieved list the account client fetches the ID field from the desired app.<\/li>\n
    4. The account client makes a request: GET \/api\/v2\/apps\/{app id}, and examines its app_configs field to find the ID of the desired app config.<\/li>\n
    5. The API client makes a request: POST \/api\/v2\/devices\/{device- id}\/task, with the payload completed with the necessary data containing the app config ID. The request succeeds.<\/li>\n
    6. The device checks in to DeviceHQ<\/li>\n
    7. The device carries out the command to install the requested app config.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Example 1 Set up a task for a device to install a custom app on its next check-in. User logs in to www.devicehq.com and uploads a custom app. API client contacts the API and does GET \/api\/v2\/apps. Within the retrieved list, the account client fetches the ID field from the desired app. The API client […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"parent":32357,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32374,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32371\/revisions\/32374"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multitech.net\/developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}