Checking if device address exists?

[alexbk66]

What's the best way to check if device address exists?

[mnsandler]

hs.GetDeviceByAddress should return an object if the address exists. otherwise you get nothing

[alexbk66]

This I know, but (1) it's not very efficient and (2) messy since you need to know if it's a "device" or "feature".

[mnsandler]

what's the alternative? you to enumerate through all the devices and/or features until you find a hit

[rmasonjr]

what's the alternative? you to enumerate through all the devices and/or features until you find a hit

I think that also generates a log event from HS that something is iterating through all the devices.

[stefxx]

What about hs.DoesRefExist?

[alexbk66]

What about hs.DoesRefExist?

It's "ref", not address

[enigmatheatre]

DeviceExistsAddress or DeviceExistsAddressFull

[alexbk66]

DeviceExistsAddress or DeviceExistsAddressFull

That's what I'm after, but where? IHsController doesn't have it.

[stefxx]

It's "ref", not address

Correct, my bad.

[enigmatheatre]

I found it here but not sure about in the sdk.

[jon00]

I found it here but not sure about in the sdk.

That would be under the HS3 HomeSeerAPI.IHSApplication

[alexbk66]

yeah, found in HomeSeerAPI.IHSApplication - will give it a try

[alexbk66]

Yep, it works, thank you enigmatheatre jon00

[davidcald]

A question related to this... Is there a script or easy method to generate a simple list of devices and their refs and address? Something that I can use to sort or search on? I don't see in the HS4 UI such a simple data grid view with selectable headers for sorting.