Device tags and friendly names are useful to add to your devices for more effective fleet management. You can search by tags and names, and more importantly you can execute actions on the devices using tags and friendly names through our API and Python SDK. However, using the Esper Console to manually enter tags and device names is time consuming, as they need to be added to each device individually through the Console. A batch entry option is not currently available, but can be implemented by using Python. At times, you may also want to switch a Group or long list of devices either out of or into Kiosk mode. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the Esper REST API to add or modify tags to introduce you to our APIs, and then we’ll walk through a Python script where you can switch a device in and out of Kiosk mode.
Using Esper’s REST API
To try out our REST APIs, we recommend using an API development tool such as Postman.
Let’s start with Retrieving…