Virtual Device activating another Virtual Device

[Angelus728 0]

Hi,

I'm just beginning to experiment with Virtual Devices (VDs) and I was wondering if it is possible to program in LUA a button in VD1 to press buttons in VD2 and VD3?

What I am trying to do is to use VD1 as sort of a Universal Remote to control my HT setup. I've successfully programmed other VDs to replicate the various remotes used in my HT and now I'm trying to put the frequent commands such as 'turn on all' and 'watch bluray' etc into the 'universal' vd. Is this possible?

I know it works when i use it as a scene, but rather than have 10 different scenes, i'd prefer to have it all on one VD for convenience. I copied and pasted the Lua from the scene into VD1 but it doesn't seem to work.. used the following code on VD1's 'Power All On' as a trial:

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What am i doing wrong?

[Krikroff 199]

You can't use getSourceTrigger() in VD, you should try

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[Angelus728 0]

ahhh i see.. i'll try that when I get home.

A few questions on VD buttons: From what I can tell, the buttons in the VDs are referenced by a button number, not the label, not the ID. Am i correct? And if so, is there an obvious way (other than physically counting) to get these numbers? What are the button IDs used for?

Thanks!

[Krikroff 199]

Yes, you can check json file from the api

[Angelus728 0]

Hmm ok that just went beyond my scope of expertise! Would you happen to know where I can start reading up on how to use json into my VDs and how to code? Would love to learn more.. Thanks!