How do I show feedback in virtual device?

[dw89 8]

Hi All,

Looking to show feedback somehow in virtual device, can anyone help me urgently? Would like to try and get it done today.

I have an iTach serial talking to an Onkyo receiver over rs232 (pre ip models). I successfully have it talking over iTest (GC realterm kinda program) and am just finalising it working via HC2. What I need to know is, I can see feedback in terminal window but how do I display it in Virtual device?

1) Where do I show it? Does it have to be in button?

2) How do I show it ? Ie LUA or just some string?

E.g "!1MVLUP\cr" sends command to put vol up by one. I then get a message back in code telling me in decimal what the value is. I need to parse it and show it in the device to show the volume. Obviously I can do this for a lot of parameters yo then use in scrnes etc.

Help much appreciated.

KR, Dave:)

[j.nowacki 5]

Hi dw89, all you need is mentioned in description of main loop, you can show volume level by slider or simply by label, just use this example:

Examples of use: fibaro:call(1170, ˝setProperty˝, ˝ui.Label1.value˝, ˝program 1˝); - sets virtual device ID 1170 Label1 content to program 1 value. fibaro:call(1170, ˝setProperty˝, ˝ui.Slider1.value˝, ˝45˝); - sets virtual device ID 1170 Slider1 to the value of 45.

[dw89 8]

Hi J Nowacki,

Thanks for the hint. Im a bit new to the fibaro calls and Lua so Im just trying to figure it all out.

Is there a repository of information on the fibaro api etc somewhere?

Sure it will all come in time!

Will come back to you if I get stuck or if I get it all working!

KR, Dave:)

[j.nowacki 5]

You can find some info here:

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but for now we have only polish version of that.

[dw89 8]

J.Nowacki/Whomever,

Unless I'm stupid (quite possible considering I've never used LUA before) all this does is 'set' Label 1 on virtual device id1170 to the value of 'program 1'.i.e.

fibaro:call(1170, ˝setProperty˝, ˝ui.Label1.value˝, ˝program 1˝);

so, if the outcome of Program 1 was '2' then label would read '2'.

I understand that 100% but what I'm trying to work out is how to I 'capture' the feedback in the first place so that I can update the label secondly?

i.e. command sent to put power on in RS232 is "!1PWR010x0D" This puts power on and will return a value like "!1PWR01" which, in this case, just states that it is now "On". So, before I write 'On' to my label....how do I capture the return message in the LUA in MAIN from my button command above? If you can tell me how to capture the message I can work the rest out for all kinds of messages (or should be able to!).

Edit: Will this work?

iTach = Net.FHttp("192.168.1.82", 4999)

iTach:setBasicAuthentication("Admin","Admin")

response, status, errorCode = iTach:POST("!1PWR010x0D")

if errorCode == 0

then

fibaro:call(??, ˝setProperty˝, ˝ui.Label1.value˝, response);

fibaro:log(status)

else

fibaro:log("error")

end

Update at 20:30; I've found some much better code using tcpSocket:write and read to do the job but I still need to know how to find the Virtual Device 'ID' so that I can set the read information to the ui.label1 message label. Any advice greatly appreciated on how to find ID

How do I get Virtual Device ID for "??" above?

Please help asap:) Dave

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[j.nowacki 5]

You can do it in 2 ways:

- myDeviceID will contain id of device

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-when you are in configuration panel of virtual device, check address bar of your browser, at the end the id of device is listed e.g.

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in that case 63 is the id

[dw89 8]

Great, thanks very much;)