Are there some first off opinions about how to manage Media devices?

[w.vuyk]

Here a C# example that clear all StatusControl and StatusGraphic for a feature and recreate them:

private void UpdateSCSGForStatusFeature(int featRef)
{
_hs.ClearStatusControlsByRef(featRef);
_hs.ClearStatusGraphicsByRef(featRef);

StatusControl statusControl = new StatusControl(EControlType.Button);
statusControl.TargetValue = 0;
statusControl.Label = "Off";
statusControl.ControlUse = EControlUse.Off;
_hs.AddStatusControlToFeature(featRef, statusControl);

statusControl = new StatusControl(EControlType.Button);
statusControl.TargetValue = 1;
statusControl.Label = "On";
statusControl.ControlUse = EControlUse.On;
_hs.AddStatusControlToFeature(featRef, statusControl);

StatusGraphic statusGraphic = new StatusGraphic(ImagesStatusDir + "alarm.png" , -1);
statusGraphic.Label = "Unreachable";
_hs.AddStatusGraphicToFeature(featRef, statusGraphic);
}

Spud,

Thanks! I was looking on HSfeature level as well as on FeatureFactory - which only can crate stuff and as such is not reusable. Back to plain HS level.

Also PROGRESS!!! here. Clear to me now. Double Thanks!

Wim

[dcorsus]

rjh More progress but also getting seriously stuck

Rich, how do I get to things like these features? Should they show up somewhere on the UI?

                Dim ff As FeatureFactory

                ff = FeatureFactory.CreateFeature(Id)
                ff.WithName("Genre")
                ff.AsType(HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EFeatureType.Media, HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EMediaFeatureSubType.MediaGenre)
                Dim genre As SortedDictionary(Of String, Double) = New SortedDictionary(Of String, Double)()
                genre.Add("Pop", 0)
                ff.AddTextDropDown(genre)
                df.WithFeature(ff)

                ff = FeatureFactory.CreateFeature(Id)
                ff.WithName("Artists")
                ff.AsType(HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EFeatureType.Media, HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EMediaFeatureSubType.MediaArtist)
                Dim artists As SortedDictionary(Of String, Double) = New SortedDictionary(Of String, Double)()
                artists.Add("U2", 0)
                ff.AddTextDropDown(artists)
                df.WithFeature(ff)

Secondly, only the volume slider seem to generate SetMultiIO call backs all other buttons/controls don't seem to do anything. Suggestions? This is how it looks now:

[dcorsus]

For those who are coding as we speak and most likely struggle with the same ....
If I follow the provided code

                ff = FeatureFactory.CreateFeature(Id)
                ff.WithName("Artists")
                ff.AsType(HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EFeatureType.Media, HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EMediaFeatureSubType.MediaArtist)
                Dim artists As SortedDictionary(Of String, Double) = New SortedDictionary(Of String, Double)()
                artists.Add("U2", 0)
                artists.Add("U3", 0)
                ff.AddTextDropDown(artists)
                df.WithFeature(ff)

                ff = FeatureFactory.CreateFeature(Id)
                ff.WithName("Albums")
                ff.AsType(HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EFeatureType.Media, HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EMediaFeatureSubType.MediaAlbum)
                Dim albums As SortedDictionary(Of String, Double) = New SortedDictionary(Of String, Double)()
                albums.Add("Some Album", 0)
                ff.AddTextDropDown(albums)
                df.WithFeature(ff)

What I notice is that for each FeatureFactory you add to a DeviceFactory (the example above has 2 of them), it appears that each Feature (Factory) will end up with its own unique FeatureRef. This reference is passed in SetMultiIO. However, if you follow the provide code example above, you would not know what the assigned references are and you can't refer events to what feature it belonged to. Of course, It could be that I just don't know where to get the reference.

If you first create a device and follow this code

                ff = FeatureFactory.CreateFeature(Id)
                ff.WithName("Player Status")
                ff.AsType(HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EFeatureType.Media, HomeSeer.PluginSdk.Devices.Identification.EMediaFeatureSubType.PlayerStatus)
                '// At this point we want to make the player status the primary device. This API Is Not yet available.
                Dim fd As NewFeatureData = ff.PrepareForHsDevice(HSRef)
                HSFeatureRef = HomeSeerSystem.CreateFeatureForDevice(fd)

You will have the reference to work with. So to the HS team rjh what am I doing wrong?




Secondly, I found the answer to my question above here about what happened to all the features, it appears I need to switch views like this:



and then buttons seem to work.



In this view:



Only the slider seems to work.

Dirk