Guidance on creating root device with 3x feature devices

[kenm]

Can someone point me in the right direction on creating a root device and features from within a script?

Is the HS3 hs.NewDeviceRef() still relevant? Do I just use that and then modify the parent/child properties and parent reference in the child devices?

Thanks,
Ken

[alexbk66]

https://docs.homeseer.com/pages/view...ageId=35717355

It says "Create, delete, and reference your devices using the functions outlined here"

But I couldn't find how to create a device

[Michael McSharry]

Unless something changed recently the HS3 Scripting API is the only published mechanism to work with HS using scripts. Your referenced method is still relevant. The other properties of the device model that you will want to deal with are the Relationship where you specify root or child and the Association where you provide forward and backward Ref pointers to the child and parent devices.

In essense you willl be createing four deivces using hs.NewDeviceRef. The first is the parent so remember it's Ref. The next three will be the children/features. In the Association property of each of these four, put the Ref of the parent or child. In the Relationship property put root for the first and child for the others.

[ewkearns]

Unless something changed recently the HS3 Scripting API is the only published mechanism to work with HS using scripts. <snip>

This is far above my pay grade, but I did notice this statement that implies to my limited understanding that something major has changed:

"In HomeSeer HS3, the high level meaning is very similar, but the functionality is different enough that NOTHING in reference to the previous versions should be re-used." Found here.

[Michael McSharry]

While there is an API used by plugins such as the link to DeviceType, I do not think a mechanism exists from a HS4 script to use it. Scripting uses the HS3 API and since HS4 also supports the HS3 API the scripts work in HS4. The examples in the Scripting section of the link provided by Alex show use of the HS3 API methods. There may be a way to reference the HS4 API libraries, but the documentation that I have seen does not provide any instances of doing it.

[kenm]

Thanks all. It looks like I've got a lot of reading to do.

[zwolfpack]

Take a look at the file SkyLib.vb from here.

The last function is 'AddChildDevice', which creates and links a child device. Call it with rtRef (root reference) set to zero to create the root (parent) device, then provide that reference in rtRef in subsequent calls to create child devices.

[kenm]

Thanks zwolfpack I'll take a look and let you know if I have any questions.