diff --git a/webinstall/cibuild.php b/webinstall/cibuild.php
index 77e4979..77cfefb 100644
--- a/webinstall/cibuild.php
+++ b/webinstall/cibuild.php
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ include("functions.php");
 include("config.php");
 if (! isset($CI_TOKEN)) die("no token");
 const apiBase="https://circleci.com/api/v2/";
+const webApp="https://app.circleci.com/";
 const apiRepo="project/gh/#user#/#repo#";
 const workflowName="build-workflow";
 const jobName="pio-build";
-
+const defaultBranch='circleci-project-setup';
+const defaultUser='wellenvogel';
+const defaultRepo='esp32-nmea2000';
 
 function getTokenHeaders(){
     global $CI_TOKEN;
@@ -63,8 +66,21 @@ function getJobStatus($pipeline,$wf=workflowName,$job=jobName){
     if ($pstat['state'] != 'created'){
         return $pstat;
     }
+    $pipeline_id=$pstat['id'];
+    $pipeline_number=$pstat['number'];
     $pstat=getWorkflow($pipeline,$wf);
+    $workflow_id=$pstat['id'];
+    $workflow_number=$pstat['workflow_number'];
     $pstat=getJob($pipeline,$pstat['id'],$job);
+    $pstat['pipeline_id']=$pipeline_id;
+    $pstat['pipeline_number']=$pipeline_number;
+    $pstat['workflow_id']=$workflow_id;
+    $pstat['workflow_number']=$workflow_number;
+    if (isset($pstat['project_slug'])){
+        $pstat['status_url']=webApp."/pipelines/".
+            preg_replace('/^gh/','github',$pstat['project_slug'])."/".
+            $pipeline_number."/workflows/".$workflow_id."/jobs/".$pstat['job_number'];
+    }
     return $pstat;
 }
 
@@ -121,7 +137,46 @@ try {
             }
             exit(0);
         }
-        die("invalid api $action");
+        if ($action == 'pipeline'){
+            addVars(
+                $par,
+                ['number','user','repo'],
+                array('user'=>defaultUser,'repo'=>defaultRepo)
+            );
+            $url=apiBase."/".replaceVars(apiRepo,fillUserAndRepo(null,$par))."/pipeline/".$par['number'];
+            $rt=getJson($url,getTokenHeaders(),true);
+            echo(json_encode($rt));
+            exit(0);
+        }
+        if ($action == 'start'){
+            addVars(
+                $par,
+                ['environment','buildflags','config','suffix','branch','user','repo'],
+                array('suffix'=>'',
+                    'branch'=>defaultBranch,
+                    'config'=>'{}',
+                    'user'=>defaultUser,
+                    'repo'=>defaultRepo,
+                    'buildflags'=>''
+                    )
+            );
+            $requestParam=array(
+                'branch'=>$par['branch'],
+                'parameters'=> array(
+                    'run_build'=>true,
+                    'environment'=>$par['environment'],
+                    'suffix'=>$par['suffix'],
+                    'config'=>$par['config'],
+                    'build_flags'=>$par['buildflags']
+                )
+            );
+            $userRepo=fillUserAndRepo(null,$par);
+            $url=apiBase."/".replaceVars(apiRepo,$userRepo)."/pipeline";
+            $rt=getJson($url,getTokenHeaders(),true,$requestParam);
+            echo (json_encode($rt));
+            exit(0);
+        }
+        throw new Exception("invalid api $action");
     }
     if (isset($_REQUEST['download'])) {
         $pipeline = $_REQUEST['download'];
diff --git a/webinstall/config.php b/webinstall/config.php
index afc3741..e63f800 100644
--- a/webinstall/config.php
+++ b/webinstall/config.php
@@ -5,16 +5,19 @@ $allowed=array(
 );
 
 
-function fillUserAndRepo($vars=null){
+function fillUserAndRepo($vars=null,$source=null){
     global $allowed;
     if ($vars == null) {
         $vars=array();
     }
+    if ($source == null){
+        $source=$_REQUEST;
+    }
     foreach (array('user','repo') as $n){
-        if (! isset($_REQUEST[$n])){
+        if (! isset($source[$n])){
             die("missing parameter $n");
         }
-        $v=$_REQUEST[$n];
+        $v=$source[$n];
         $av=$allowed[$n];
         if (! in_array($v,$av)){
             die("value $v for $n not allowed");
diff --git a/webinstall/functions.php b/webinstall/functions.php
index 96557a6..d431058 100644
--- a/webinstall/functions.php
+++ b/webinstall/functions.php
@@ -121,11 +121,18 @@ function getFwHeaders($aheaders=null){
     }
     return $outHeaders;
 }
-function getJson($url,$headers=null,$doThrow=false){
+function getJson($url,$headers=null,$doThrow=false,$jsonData=null){
     $curl = curl_init();
     curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
     curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, getFwHeaders($headers));
+    $outHeaders=getFwHeaders($headers);
+    if ($jsonData != null){
+        $json=json_encode($jsonData);
+        array_push($outHeaders,"Content-Type: application/json");
+        array_push($outHeaders,"Content-length: ".strlen($json));
+        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$json);   
+    }
+    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $outHeaders);
     $response = curl_exec($curl);
     $httpcode = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
     #echo("curl exec for $url:$response:$httpcode\n");