HC3 QuickApps coding - tips and tricks

[Christb 11]

Hi JGAB,

I have finished to modify your QA SVGTest2.fqa with my 4 floors, Temperatures displayed in each room with update every 1.5mn, each lights status On (enlarge red indicator) or Off (small green indicator) for each room with update every 1s.

I want to have the first row of buttons beeing hidden or visible by changing a quickAppVar "Grid"=false or true.

The question is there an attribute in the line

--%%u={{button='raster',text='Grille',onReleased='raster'},{button="sensors", text="Couleurs", onReleased="indicLamp"}}

which can make the buttons visible or hidden (I think the QA needs to restart)?

Do I have to change it with a QA property change?

if it is the case, will code be the same in vscode and HC3 QA?

The reason is that the raster is not needed in a normal running QA but for any change in the number of devices, raster is mandatory to place then on the picture (I spend a full day for doing it with 9+15+16+9 lights and 6+9+12+4 temp sensors) 

Again these changes will have not been possible without fibemu ( Thanks🤩)

[Christb 11]

 

23 hours ago, Christb said:

I  want to have the first row of buttons beeing hidden or visible by changing a quickAppVar "Grid"=false or true.

The question is there an attribute in the line

--%%u={{button='raster',text='Grille',onReleased='raster'},{button="sensors", text="Couleurs", onReleased="indicLamp"}}

which can make the buttons visible or hidden (I think the QA needs to restar)

I have found a way to display or not the raster at startup and for each floor change by adding a QuickVar "NoGrid" with value "true" or "false" and launch the "raster" function conditionnaly of "NoGrid" value. Not fair code but it works👍 - for that I have also changed the "self.raster" value to "false" in SVG.lua file.

If you have a better way to do the above I will be happy to learn.

 

Also putting the "--%%u=..."  buttons and slider lines between --[[ ]]-- suppress the buttons and slider lines in the vscode web UI.

 

For the HC3 QA which is now working correctly as well:

I have use the attribute called "visible" but then QA displays blank lines where they were located so I have moved them below the image and suppress "select" line as it is not possible for the slider to hide it.

What is strange is that I have a line in the QuickApp debug window which I think is linked to "self.temps={}":

[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [TRACE] [QUICKAPP525]: UIEvent: {"values":[2],"deviceId":525,"elementName":"sltc7","eventType":"onToggled"}
[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [DEBUG] [QUICKAPP525]: Selected floor: 2
[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [DEBUG] [QUICKAPP525]: createMap indx: 2
[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [DEBUG] [QUICKAPP525]: createMap indx: 2, curr: 9
[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [DEBUG] [QUICKAPP525]: custom [luabind::detail::null_type] object: (nil)
[06.03.2024] [13:40:01] [DEBUG] [QUICKAPP525]: No grid

What does mean that line?

Nothing similar in fibemu.

Attached the QA file

 

 

 

 

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Edited March 6, 2024 by Christb
Change the fqa files due to wrong size of temp values in Yubii applications - now OK

[Christb 11]

I have another non expected issue: in the QuickApp variable table I cannot modify the variables the "pen" for opening modification is not displayed

What I need to declare in the code to prevent this? 

 

 

[Christb 11]

14 minutes ago, Christb said:

I have another non expected issue: in the QuickApp variable table I cannot modify the variables the "pen" for opening modification is not displayed

What I need to declare in the code to prevent this? 

I have found that if I am creating the QuickVar from the onInit function, then it is impossible to modify it in the QA variable pannel

So I suppressed in the code the 2 lines for the 2 variables that are static and now I can modify them manualy. 😁

I have update the attached fqa file in my previous post

[Christb 11]

As I started with your SVGtest.fqa which has been created as a binary switch the Fibaron ON/OFF buttons are there but of no use.

I tried to change its type using the Swagger but all new data are accepted except the type change.

Is this forbiden by Fibaro?

if it is the case then I will have to create a new QA with the type "com.fibaro.deviceController" and reinject all files main, SVG and images.

 

Edited March 6, 2024 by Christb

[jgab 2,105]

12 hours ago, Christb said:

As I started with your SVGtest.fqa which has been created as a binary switch the Fibaron ON/OFF buttons are there but of no use.

I tried to change its type using the Swagger but all new data are accepted except the type change.

Is this forbiden by Fibaro?

if it is the case then I will have to create a new QA with the type "com.fibaro.deviceController" and reinject all files main, SVG and images.

 

No, you can't change the type of an existing QA. You need to create a new (in fibemu?) with your choice of type...

Edited March 7, 2024 by jgab

[jgab 2,105]

12 hours ago, Christb said:

I have found that if I am creating the QuickVar from the onInit function, then it is impossible to modify it in the QA variable pannel

So I suppressed in the code the 2 lines for the 2 variables that are static and now I can modify them manualy. 😁

I have update the attached fqa file in my previous post

The short answer is that if you store a value that is not a string you can't edit it.

[Christb 11]

4 hours ago, jgab said:

The short answer is that if you store a value that is not a string you can't edit it.

It is not the first time I am asking: "Where I can find such specification?"

[jgab 2,105]

So QuickApps have their own storage that is not quickAppVariables.

It's a good place to store values that should survive restarts but we don't want them visible in the quickVar list.

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The values survive restarts of the QA but will not be saved when the QA is downloaded (only quickVars are saved with the .fqa)

 

To make it easy to use we can wrap it up in a metatable

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Edited April 1, 2024 by jgab

[Brors94 51]

15 minutes ago, jgab said:

So QuickApps have their own storage that is not quickAppVariables.

It's a good place to store values that should survive restarts but we don't want them visible in the quickVar list.

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The values survive restarts of the QA but will not be saved when the QA is downloaded (only quickVars are saved with the .fqa)

 

To make it easy to use we can wrap it up in a metastable

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Love this @jgab, I have used over 40 Qvars to store everything 😅

[Brors94 51]

Hi again @jgab. 

May I ask for your help again. Since the last post about the storage with metatables I have cleaned up my QA I am trying to make now  
And only have the needed Qvars for user to set. But I am still on alot off Qvars for Lights, relays and colourswitches 😅

 

I have tried to figure it out by looking on other QA posted in the forum like your Devicesensor from 2020.

where the Devices ID's can all go in 1 Qvar. But I dont understand tables and arrays and how to manipulate them well enuf yet. 

My work around is this with 10Qvars and then store them inn a table (LightID): 

  local  LightID1 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID1")) or 0

  local  LightID2 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID2")) or 0

  local  LightID3 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID3")) or 0

  local  LightID4 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID4")) or 0

  local  LightID5 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID5")) or 0

  local  LightID6 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID6")) or 0

  local  LightID7 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID7")) or 0

  local  LightID8 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID8")) or 0

  local  LightID9 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID9")) or 0

  local  LightID10 = tonumber(self:getVariable("LightID10")) or 0

  local  LightID = {LightID1, LightID2, LightID3, LightID4, LightID5,LightID6,LightID7,LightID8,LightID9,LightID10}

 

 

So I dont have  to make a hub.call for each LightID1-10

 

I know I have seen somewhere on the forum you can do a fromat thing to set a  "," between each number inn a string and store it in the table. But cant find back too it 😅

--[[

  local LightID = {}

  local LightID = self:getVariable("LightID1")

]]

--LightID here is exampel: 2131 2049 (ID of multilevelswitches)

 

 

 

 

 

[Kage 37]

Do you mean

lightId={}

table.insert(lightId,LightD1)

table.insert(lightId,LightD2) etc....

Or

for k,v in pairs(LightID)do table.insert(lightId,v)end

[Brors94 51]

 

 

32 minutes ago, Kage said:

Do you mean

lightId={}

table.insert(lightId,LightD1)

table.insert(lightId,LightD2) etc....

Or

for k,v in pairs(LightID)do table.insert(lightId,v)end

 

Hmm This is kinda the same as this? 🤔
LightID = {LightID1, LightID2, LightID3, LightID4, LightID5,LightID6,LightID7,LightID8,LightID9,LightID10} 

 

 

My goal is to only have 1 Qvar where I can type in all my multilevel switches IDS like the: "2131 2049"  and store thoose values in a table like this: 😅

LightID = {2131,2049, "more ID'S" } 

 

 

If you know what I mean by this? 😅 
Sorry for my bad explanation  
 

 

 

[Kage 37]

lightID1=155

lightID2=314

lightID3=329

lightID4=270

function QuickApp:data()

    LightId=self:getVariable('LightId')

    tb=json.decode((self:getVariable('LightId')))

    for k,v in pairs({lightID1,lightID2,lightID3,lightID4})do

        tb[v]=fibaro.getValue(v,'value')

        self:setVariable('lightId',json.encode(tb))

    end

end

function QuickApp:onInit()self:data()end

 

gives

• lightId   String variable   {"270":true,"329":25,"314":0,"155":25}

[Brors94 51]

19 hours ago, Kage said:

lightID1=155

lightID2=314

lightID3=329

lightID4=270

function QuickApp:data()

    LightId=self:getVariable('LightId')

    tb=json.decode((self:getVariable('LightId')))

    for k,v in pairs({lightID1,lightID2,lightID3,lightID4})do

        tb[v]=fibaro.getValue(v,'value')

        self:setVariable('lightId',json.encode(tb))

    end

end

function QuickApp:onInit()self:data()end

 

gives

• lightId   String variable   {"270":true,"329":25,"314":0,"155":25}

It is somthing like this I am looking for, but this store the Lightid1-4 with their current value, am I right? 

The thing I want to do is too take my Qvar "LightID"  with the string "26 87 116 222"             <-- ID of 4 multilevelswitches 

 

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And make them into a table like this:

 

I dont know how to convert it from the self:getvariable to the LightID with the table

 

It is most likly very basic, but Fibaro is my only experience with any coding at all 😅

 

And I know I have seen someone done it somewhere on the forum before, but cant find it...  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Neo Andersson 195]

1 hour ago, Brors94 said:

It is somthing like this I am looking for, but this store the Lightid1-4 with their current value, am I right? 

The thing I want to do is too take my Qvar "LightID"  with the string "26 87 116 222"             <-- ID of 4 multilevelswitches 

 

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And make them into a table like this:

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I dont know how to convert it from the self:getvariable to the LightID with the table

 

It is most likly very basic, but Fibaro is my only experience with any coding at all 😅

 

And I know I have seen someone done it somewhere on the forum before, but cant find it...  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am not really sure what you want to acheieve

But if i am right you have a string variable 26,87,116,222 and you want to add them by keys into a table ?

If so

 

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Edited April 5, 2024 by Neo Andersson

[Brors94 51]

2 hours ago, Neo Andersson said:

I am not really sure what you want to acheieve

But if i am right you have a string variable 26,87,116,222 and you want to add them by keys into a table ?

If so

 

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Thanks for helping @Neo Andersson  

 

Had some error when calling the LightID first and said it was a string  

But adjusted too this and it works! Thanks alot! 
 

local qaVar = self:getVariable("LightID")

 

 split = function(s, delimiter)

        local result = {};

        for match in (s .. delimiter😞gmatch("(.-)" .. delimiter) do

            table.insert(result, match);

        end

        return result;

    end

 

-- Now split the string using the function

local elements = split(qaVar, ",")

 

-- Create the indexed LightID table

local LightID = {}

for i, element in ipairs(elements) do

    LightID[i] = tonumber(element)

end

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited April 5, 2024 by Brors94

[Brors94 51]

 

Just want to share what you guys have helped me with  

and wonder if any body got some tips for additional futures for the outdoor light controller

Would also appriciate comments on how to do the code better 😅 Because ill guess you guys might get a laugh 😆
 

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And if you like it you are free to use it and change it for your needs

And thanks too @jgab for the Eventlib 😄

 

 

 

[jgab 2,105]

Running this code in an HC3 QA vs HC3 Scene

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Runs on ~10s in a QA and ~30s in a Scene.

Both QAs and Scenes seem to run Lua 5.3 these days.

 

So, QAs are 3x faster? Go figure...

[Brors94 51]

On 4/26/2024 at 10:09 AM, jgab said:

Running this code in an HC3 QA vs HC3 Scene

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Runs on ~10s in a QA and ~30s in a Scene.

Both QAs and Scenes seem to run Lua 5.3 these days.

 

So, QAs are 3x faster? Go figure...

 

So it is smart to setup most of the automasion in quickapps then? 🤔 If I understand you right  

I tested on my HC3, it gave me 47s on scene and 11 on QA