Change name of virtual switch button name

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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I am working on a plugin that is modeled after the virtual switch. I have everything working the way i want but i want to change the name of the on off buttons periodically. As an example the click the On button and the name changes to Waiting since my command i am issuing can take a couple minutes for the network device to reach the on state. When it does i want to change it back the button text to On.

Is there any way to do that in luup. I know you can set the initial Label text in the json config file. But how do u change it down the road.

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It is not possible to change the ui buttons on the fly. It will require you to modify the D_xxxx.json file and reload the UI / luup engine.

  • Garrett
3

Bummer that is what i was afraid of. Anything i can do to show a status message on the device in the UI? Also can you change icons on the fly?

4

for an example, look at D_MotionSensor1.json on your vera by selecting download. You will see the two icon files that it uses for each state, indicating red running man and green man

{ "flashicon": "icons/Motion_Sensor.png", "imgIconBody": "", "imgIconDimmable": "", "imgIconTurnable": "", "imgIconMin": "", "imgIconMax": "", "halloIconsDir": "pics/hallo", "x": "2", "y": "3", "state_icons": [ "Motion_Sensor_0.png", "Motion_Sensor_100.png" ], "inScene": "1", "DisplayStatus": { "Service": "urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:SecuritySensor1", "Variable": "Tripped", "MinValue": "0", "MaxValue": "1" },

5

Ahh that makes sense i will dig into it thanks! Maybe instead of changing the button text i would like to do something like this.
See screenshot.

Would i just do that with adding a label to my plugin? do you know what code and which files i need to put it in and can i change the status text periodically as the plugin runs?

I was looking at the Nest plugin cause their interface has something like what i want to do that updates the text. I found this code and implemented it in my json file but it doesnt show up.

  {
                    "ControlGroup": "3",
                    "ControlType": "variable",
                    "top": "0.2",
                    "left": "0",
                    "Display": {
                        "Top": 120,
                        "Left": 500,
                        "Width": 100,
                        "Height": 25,
                        "Service": "urn:undertoe-us:serviceId:Roomba1",
                        "Variable": "ModeState",
                        "Value": "Cleaning"
                    },
					"ControlCode": "hvac_state"

      }

Here is my project code: [url=https://github.com/undert03/vera-roomba]https://github.com/undert03/vera-roomba[/url]

6

I got it i had to add a scene group and scene control info for it.
I just went with the control type variable

"Control": [
			{
				"ControlGroup": "3",	
				"ControlType": "variable",
				"Display": {
					"Service": "urn:undertoe-us:serviceId:Roomba1",
					"Variable": "PingStatus",
					"Top": 10,
					"Left": 50,
					"Width": 200,
					"Height": 20
			
				},
				"ControlHeader":"1"
			}
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great,

I personally just muddled my war through this so I’m not the right person to ask.

@guessed is (from what I have learned here) one of the masters in plugin development.

Cool plugin, by the way.

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Bulldog thanks for the input though, plugin will hopefully be published in the app store soon.