Porting HS3->HS4

[bsobel]

I apologize if its obvious and I missed it, but I was expecting the documentation to have a section on porting from HS3 to HS4. It appears the focus is just on new plugin development, for those with existing plugins to port, is there any overview of the steps required?

[rjh]

Yes, JL is working on that doc. He may be reaching out to you also as I sent him the HSCF changes you made and he may have some questions as he was looking at it also (for other reasons).

I apologize if its obvious and I missed it, but I was expecting the documentation to have a section on porting from HS3 to HS4. It appears the focus is just on new plugin development, for those with existing plugins to port, is there any overview of the steps required?

[bsobel]

Sounds good. Thanks!

[alexbk66]

Yes, JL is working on that doc. He may be reaching out to you also as I sent him the HSCF changes you made and he may have some questions as he was looking at it also (for other reasons).

Any update?

[Blade]

Did something ever get posted on HS3–>HS4 plugin conversion?

I would like to see what it would take to do it and if it is worth it because I really do not see a benefit especially since there will be an upgrade fee

[Michael McSharry]

There are some hints at https://docs.homeseer.com/display/HSPI/Using+the+SDK but not really a guide. I published quite a bit in the Alpha forum (which is now this forum) for techniques I found to make it easier. There are also other pioneers that contributed much to this forum.

I do agree with you that at this time there is little motivation and much work, especially in the UI area.

[alexbk66]

A bit here https://docs.homeseer.com/display/HS...+API+Reference

[Blade]

Thanks

[Blade]

So I started converting one of my HS3 plugins to HS4... what a pain in the ***!
I really hope I can use the generated web pages as is somehow because I do not feel like rewriting all of the web pages in the plugin

Anyone know if you can use the HS3 API in the HS4 plugin to still use the older web page calls (which are in the HS3 API). I am talking about these

GenPage
BuildPage
PagePut

as well as these

callback.RegisterLink
callback.RegisterConfigLink

There is no way I am going to rewrite all web pages in the plugin

[alexbk66]

IHSApplication _hs3;
private static IScsServiceClient<IHSApplication> _client3;
private const int HomeSeerPort = 10400;

IHSApplication GetHS3()
{
  if (_hs3 == null)
  {
    try
    {
      _client3 = ScsServiceClientBuilder.CreateClient<IHSApplication>(
                                                  new ScsTcpEndPoint(IpAddress, HomeSeerPort), this);
      _client3.Connect();
      _hs3 = _client3.ServiceProxy;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
      Console.WriteLine($"GetHS3: {ex}");
    }
  }

  return _hs3;
}

[Blade]

Thanks - will try it out