Visual Studio Code (vscode) for QuickApp development

[PeterV959 10]

@jgabin the manual you show a way to kill the task to free up port 5004 on a Mac. Is there a similar way to kill the task in Windows 11? Or, barring that, what would be the name of the task to hunt for in Task Manager? 

[jgab 2,105]

I'm not really a windows person... but

I found a powersshell script that works (I tested it on windows)

I included it in ./examples/kill-port.ps1

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You can run it in the terminal in vscode (make sure the terminal is of type powershell)

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You may need to set the rights to run local powershell scripts.

You do it in Settings -> Privacy & Security -> For developers -> PowerShell

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[PeterV959 10]

@jgab I have added the noStock directive to my QA as shown below. I am running v. 0.36 which I updated this morning. However, I cannot see the "stock ui" elements for either my com.fibaro.binarySwitch or my com.fibaro.multilevelSwitch children.

 

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Also, my parent is implemented as a com.fibaro.deviceController. For that UI there is an element displayed which appears to be either a label or a button. However, I can't seem to do anything with it (so it must be a label?). It displays when noStock is true or false.

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[jgab 2,105]

Ok, it was only implemented for main QAs - now added to QuickAppChildren too...

The rectangle you see is just an empty UI frame with no controllers/text inside. I may remove the frame for an empty UI...

Edited August 22, 2023 by jgab

[PeterV959 10]

11 hours ago, jgab said:

Ok, it was only implemented for main QAs - now added to QuickAppChildren too...

The rectangle you see is just an empty UI frame with no controllers/text inside. I may remove the frame for an empty UI...

 

Thank you. The empty frame is no big deal, I just relay things I notice. Think of my observations as an additional set of eyes.

[PeterV959 10]

I was trying to use the api.delete() method to remove a child device in the Fibemu. When it executed there was a crash in the emulator. It is probably something boneheaded I am doing. Here's the code & debug output I got.

 

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The childID has the value 5001 (an integer). Thus the string strRestURL contains `/plugins/removeChildDevice/5001`. I used a string to inspect its contents while stepping through using the debugger.

 

The lead in to this is I created a UI button on the main device which calls my method to clean up my stuff. Once I clean up, I want to delete the child device. Obviously I don't want to have this button in the final product but I have no other way to remove a child device in Fibemu. On the Z-Box I can hit the trash can in the device setup. My rationale for this would be to reinitialize the child device if I touch up my ui view. Perhaps that's unnecessary but I learn by doing.

 

Thanks again. 😎

[jgab 2,105]

2 hours ago, PeterV959 said:

I was trying to use the api.delete() method to remove a child device in the Fibemu. When it executed there was a crash in the emulator. It is probably something boneheaded I am doing. Here's the code & debug output I got.

 

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The childID has the value 5001 (an integer). Thus the string strRestURL contains `/plugins/removeChildDevice/5001`. I used a string to inspect its contents while stepping through using the debugger.

 

The lead in to this is I created a UI button on the main device which calls my method to clean up my stuff. Once I clean up, I want to delete the child device. Obviously I don't want to have this button in the final product but I have no other way to remove a child device in Fibemu. On the Z-Box I can hit the trash can in the device setup. My rationale for this would be to reinitialize the child device if I touch up my ui view. Perhaps that's unnecessary but I learn by doing.

 

Thanks again. 😎

Sorry, the remove method was never implemented (never done it yet  )

1 line of code - fixed.

[PeterV959 10]

6 hours ago, jgab said:

Sorry, the remove method was never implemented (never done it yet  )

1 line of code - fixed.

All good. I thought that was the case. I did see it in the documentation and based my attempt on that. I have also marveled at the thoroughness of your error checking so I thought I would give this a try.

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56 minutes ago, PeterV959 said:

All good. I thought that was the case. I did see it in the documentation and based my attempt on that. I have also marveled at the thoroughness of your error checking so I thought I would give this a try.

error checking - and in particular giving users good error messages is the most difficult task when providing a framework (just ask Fibaro  ) 

[PeterV959 10]

On 8/25/2023 at 7:12 AM, jgab said:

error checking - and in particular giving users good error messages is the most difficult task when providing a framework (just ask Fibaro  ) 

Why would I, or anyone else, ask Fibaro anything? They never respond. Makes one think they don't even exist. 😎

[chelson 7]

Hey Jan,
I think a small bug in fibemu

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This code returns and error due to the "timeout' option. it works without any option...

 

Here is the debug console...
 

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4 hours ago, chelson said:

Hey Jan,
I think a small bug in fibemu

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This code returns and error due to the "timeout' option. it works without any option...

 

Here is the debug console...
 

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Yep, had misspelled socket instead of sock for the timeout function... I pushed a new version to GitHub (it's the fibnet.py that was updated)

 

 

[gurpal2000 1]

I can't seem to get the thing installed on windows 11. Can everyone else? see 

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10 hours ago, gurpal2000 said:

I can't seem to get the thing installed on windows 11. Can everyone else? see 

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What version of Python have you installed?

Here I install on a clean Windows11

 

[jgab 2,105]

2 hours ago, jgab said:

What version of Python have you installed?

Here I install on a clean Windows11

 

I just tried again on win11 and it works with python 3.11 - it may have issues with python 3.12

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46 minutes ago, jgab said:

I just tried again on win11 and it works with python 3.11 - it may have issues with python 3.12

So it turns out that python 3.12 that is still pretty new doesn't have precompiled "wheels" (used by cython)  that is required by Lupa (and many other packages)

It may solve itself soon as 3.12 fixes it - or Lupa may fix it soon - or I may discover a workaround...

For now, use 3.11.

[jgab 2,105]

So there is actually a 2.1 version of Lupa prepared that has support for 3.12

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but it's not released as a python package yet. I guess you could download and compile yourself if you really need 3.12.

[gurpal2000 1]

@jgab thanks for your quick diagnosis. No problem, I simply downloaded the latest version and assumed it would work. You'd think aa 3.11 vs 3.12 wouldn't introduce 'breaking' changes.

 

I will give 3.11 a go shortly

Edited December 9, 2023 by gurpal2000

[jgab 2,105]

37 minutes ago, gurpal2000 said:

@jgab thanks for your quick diagnosis. No problem, I simply downloaded the latest version and assumed it would work. You'd think aa 3.11 vs 3.12 wouldn't introduce 'breaking' changes.

 

I will give 3.11 a go shortly

3.12 is still quite new and many packages are not up to date yet.  And the Lupa module that fibemu uses will soon update to be 3.12 compatible.
In vscode (or rather python) you can have virtual python environment with it's own python version and libraries - can be worth looking into.

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34 minutes ago, jgab said:

3.12 is still quite new and many packages are not up to date yet.  And the Lupa module that fibemu uses will soon update to be 3.12 compatible.
In vscode (or rather python) you can have virtual python environment with it's own python version and libraries - can be worth looking into.

 

3.11 worked Great!

Yes aware of virtual envs in other langs too. It's all in VM at the moment so trash the whole thing (or restore to a base install) in case something goes wrong at least.

 

Out of interest what level of permissions is required for the Visual Studio integration (as per the config.json)? I will try my existing user, but could it be best practice to create a separate user specifically for fibemu?

Edited December 9, 2023 by gurpal2000