[GUIDE] How to check HomeTable reference in scenes

[jayrock 10]

Hello

 

As notes in various threads, subtle typos in a HomeTable reference can cause scenes to fail.

 

Equally difficult to troubleshoot is the %% properties section of scenes, as this one uses the actual DeviceID instead of the HomeTable reference.

 

I stumble regularly across these two whenever I add/remove devices or update device names. The attached python script checks that all references can be resolved to id's and vice-versa.

 

Example output

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User configuration is in line 15-19 of the script. IP address, username/password, the name of the HomeTable global variable need to be adjusted. If "verbose" in line 20 is set to False, only errors will be displayed.

 

Here is the workflow that I use to check the references and IDs:

 

1. Run the script with verbose = False; edit scenes to remove any error that occurs

2. Run the script with verbose = True; the triggers in %%properties are displayed; review the scenes and check if the right devices are defined as triggers.

 

Hope this is useful.

 

/jayrock

 

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