How to make a scene to centralize a function

[robmac 173]

This technique can be used for a lot more but this simple case illustrates it in a very simple way.

 

I am not seeing a lot of example of using this feature posted so I thought this might give  a few who do not know some ideas. The technique is based around that second parameter of the fibaro:startScene method fibaro:startScene(sceneID,args).

 

args is a LUA table so you can pass pretty much anything to a scene via the API or from another piece of LUA. In this example only a table with one text element is passed.

 

Create a scene myDebugIllustration

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You may need to set the number of instances to a larger number wen you use this properly.

 

Now create another scene myTestScene

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Now remember that as I said earlier "a lua table can hold pretty much anything"

 

Enjoy

 

[Sankotronic 2,091]

23 minutes ago, szmyk said:

Is it possible to pass to a scene special characters like ä,ö,ü, ł, ó, ą ?

Actually I get different chararacters: ÄÅÄÅÅ

 

Hi @szmyk,

 

I tested with @AutoFrank SMsgH scene and find out that it is not possible to pass special characters to scene. That is big disadvantage for this feature.

[szmyk 52]

I need it to SMsgH, too

 

Maybe base64 would help but there is no native base64 function in fibaro api.

I was trying urlencode function, but there is no native urldecode function.

[AutoFrank 372]

22 hours ago, szmyk said:

I need it to SMsgH, too

 

@szmyk, @Sankotronic

Maybe its time to bring back the SMsgH v 1.0

It was invoked with a global variable change and not startScene and hence didn't suffer from the international characters issue 

There were other change with 1.1 but perhaps we could have 2 versions available

 

it's not ideal but perhaps its the best solution for now....

[szmyk 52]

@AutoFrank

Have you tested parallel invocation of SMsgH with global variable? Are there any problems?

StartScene can be run parallel 10 times (after setting scene parameter).

[AutoFrank 372]

11 minutes ago, szmyk said:

Have you tested parallel invocation of SMsgH with global variable? Are there any problems?

 

@szmyk, I wouldn't think so as only one global is used and that needs to be overwritten so I would assume it's serial flow...I haven't come across a situation where I need to send message that rapidly. If I have parallel requirements, I usually try and space them out by 500ms

[szmyk 52]

@AutoFrank

I have not many scenes and VDs so it's not a big problem for me. But for person who have huge installation like you or @Sankotronic it could be a problem. Two or more scenes or VDs may want to send message at the same time. It's not possible ro run them sequentially because they are independent.

Edited June 19, 2017 by szmyk

[szmyk 52]

On 18.06.2017 at 3:55 PM, szmyk said:

Is it possible to pass to a scene special characters like ä,ö,ü, ł, ó, ą ?

Actually I get different chararacters: ÄÅÄÅÅ

 

I've found a workaround and described in this post: