Virtual Device - Which properties does it have?

[perjar 10]

Hi,

 

I am wondering about the properties of a Virtual Device and how they can be accessed and changed.

 

For instance, if you want to change the icon of a VD you can use a statement like this:

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If you want to update a label text you would do:

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To my question then: Does anyone know of a complete list of properties applicable to a Virtual Device?

For instance: devices which report power consumption use the footer area to display current power usage. Can this area be accessed in a VD too? Someting along the lines of: 

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I am reading in Fibaro's documentation of the REST API about how to extract a list of all VDs and their properties/data. There are apparently properties like "caption", and "buttonIcon". The question is if and how these can be set via LUA code.

 

Thanks for any tips and hints.

/Per

 

 

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

1 hour ago, perjar said:

To my question then: Does anyone know of a complete list of properties applicable to a Virtual Device?

For instance: devices which report power consumption use the footer area to display current power usage. Can this area be accessed in a VD too? Someting along the lines of: 

 

fibaro:log(“hello”)

[perjar 10]

14 hours ago, Jamie mccrostie said:

 

fibaro:log(“hello”)

Thanks a bunch Jamie!

 

The message is temporarily displayed, for about 8-9 seconds, and then reset. By design apparently.

 

In my case I have a VD which runs every 30 seconds using fibaro:sleep(30000) so I need to figure out a way to keep the message active in the log area.

 

One option is to allow the VD to run every second and programmatically fix the 30 second sleep with an internal counter in the VD.

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Jamie mccrostie 82]

23 hours ago, perjar said:

Thanks a bunch Jamie!

 

The message is temporarily displayed, for about 8-9 seconds, and then reset. By design apparently.

 

In my case I have a VD which runs every 30 seconds using fibaro:sleep(30000) so I need to figure out a way to keep the message active in the log area.

 

One option is to allow the VD to run every second and programmatically fix the 30 second sleep with an internal counter in the VD.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

Just put it in your VD main loop

[BitBucket 13]

@perjar

On 1-3-2018 at 4:57 PM, perjar said:

I am reading in Fibaro's documentation of the REST API about how to extract a list of all VDs and their properties/data.

 

This is a way to actually see all VD properties to get you started.

When using Firefox:

1. Install a JSON-viewer like 'KISaD JSON Viewer' (fast and simple).

2. Open the VD General Tab.

3. In the URL, replace     fibaro/en     by     api    ('en' is your current webUI language)

4. Press [Enter]

[rvelthoen 12]

On 3/3/2018 at 8:41 AM, Jamie mccrostie said:

 

Just put it in your VD main loop

I have the same problem.

My code is in the main loop, but it still dissapears after a short time, or when you refresh the browser.

 

In the debugwindow, i see it is printing the timestamp over and over again:

 

[DEBUG] 17:13:02: 16:54:54
[DEBUG] 17:13:05: 16:54:54
[DEBUG] 17:13:08: 16:54:54
[DEBUG] 17:13:11: 16:54:54
[DEBUG] 17:13:14: 16:54:54

 

Piece of code from the mainloop:

 

local hueTemperatureDeviceID = 3
local hueMotionDeviceID      = 4
local HUEkeukenPIR  = fibaro:getGlobal('KeukenPIR')   

-- enter name of the user that you added to the HUE bridge
local hueUser = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
-- enter icon ID's for corresponding status of the virtual device
local iconOk          = 1028
local iconalarm          = 1027
local iconUnreachable = 1033
local iconError       = 1034
local debug           = false

 fibaro:debug(HUEkeukenPIR)
 fibaro:log(HUEkeukenPIR)

 

I have no idea where to look anymore, anybody?