Relation between devices and rooms

[pos 22]

Hi

 

Let us assume we name a light device with the name "roof" if you have only one light device in a room. This means you have a lot of light devices with the same name in the Fibaro system, but of course different ID numbers...

 

 

Now... Let us assume I have a LUA code and handle for example light ID 144. It is easy to look up its name and present that to the user instead of the ID as its name exists in the light device JSON code through the API. But if I have more rooms it will probably be so that I will present several light IDs with the same name, as their names are the same, but in different rooms.

 

Therefor I would like to look up the lighid device number and get its name PLUS the room it is in. In this case I can present it like "Bathroom/Roof" instead of just "Roof".

 

The problem is that the light device JSON object has no info about the room it is in. and the Room JSON object has no info in it about the devices in the room.

 

 

Anyone that knows how to easily look up the room a device is in?

 

Tnx

/Peo

 

 

/Peo

[jgab 2,642]

You make a reverse lookup table for the json/hometable 

 

[pos 22]

 

I have no problem creating any object in my LUA code if I can benefit from it. I create my own JSON "work-objects" in may code bases when needed. 

 

However....

 

Looked a little more and saw I must have been tired   Getting the light device JSON object, I now see it has a "roomID" attribute on it. This means I easily can get the room ID from the light device object and then get the room name from the room ID JSON object.

 

 

 

 

[Sankotronic 2,370]

11 hours ago, pos said:

 

I have no problem creating any object in my LUA code if I can benefit from it. I create my own JSON "work-objects" in may code bases when needed. 

 

However....

 

Looked a little more and saw I must have been tired   Getting the light device JSON object, I now see it has a "roomID" attribute on it. This means I easily can get the room ID from the light device object and then get the room name from the room ID JSON object.

 

 

Hi @pos,

 

You don't need API REST calls to get device name and room. This can be easily done with Fibaro LUA functions as in bellow example:

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Edited December 15, 2017 by Sankotronic

[pos 22]

@Sankotronic

 

Many thanks. Then I can skip some LUA. Did not know that built in command existed!

 

/Peo

[Pavel Konir 0]

I sent the proposal to the fibaro for the functions:

 

fibro: getDevicesByRoomId (roomID)
fibaro: getDevicesByRoomIdAndType (roomID, deviceType)

both functions return a collection of device objects, or at least an id collection

They answered:

Great idea, I will forward it to Our software developer team for checking the possibility of implementation.