HS3 Plugin Samples

[Kirby]

I have run the installer and all three of the HS3 dlls are referenced:
HomeSeerAPI.dll 2/17/14 1.0.2.1
HSCF.dll 2/17/14 1.0.0.2
Scheduler.dll 2/17/14 3.0.0.0

[rjh]

Make sure you run the HS3 installer on the remote PC as the plugin needs access to many of the HS3 DLL files.

When HSPI_Sample is run on a remote PC an exception is raised (Object Reference not set to instance of the object) when the call to hs.GetDeviceEnumerator () is made. It works fine when the same plugin is run on the local HS3 server with 3.0.0.68 installed.

The server is a hometroller and the remote PC is running Windows 8.1 64bit.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Kirby]

Exception Raised when GetDeviceEnumerator() is Called from Remote Plugin

When HSPI_Sample is run on a remote PC an exception is raised (Object Reference not set to instance of the object) when the call to hs.GetDeviceEnumerator () is made. It works fine when the same plugin is run on the local HS3 server with 3.0.0.68 installed.

The server is a hometroller and the remote PC is running Windows 8.1 64bit.

Any help would be appreciated.

[pawnies20]

OK solved with informations in this post!
Thanx

[pawnies20]

Error message for sample plugin is:
**FATAL**: Failed getting InterfaceStatus from Sample Plugin - the interface was not found in the list of active interfaces.


For sample-basic MI
**FATAL**: Failed getting InterfaceStatus from Sample-BasicMI - the interface was not found in the list of active interfaces.


Thanx

[Rick Tinker]

If I try to compile the plugins I get a lot of errors like
-Error 35 'AddAjaxHandlerPost' is not a member of 'HSPI_SAMPLE.WebTestPage'. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 93 24 HSPI_SAMPLE
-Error 80 'clsJQuery' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 311 24 HSPI_SAMPLE
-Error 32 'divToUpdate' is not a member of 'HSPI_SAMPLE.WebTestPage'. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 54 17 HSPI_SAMPLE

Something wrong?
Thank you

You have not set your references to the HS3 libraries - HomeSeerAPI.dll, HSCF.dll, and Scheduler.dll.

[Rick Tinker]

Hi
I can only test in hs3 "hspi sample basic", after compilation.
The hspi_sample and hspi_sample_basicMI, in hs3 generates an error "com port..."

How can i use them ?

Thanx

Make sure you have the latest version of the samples, and then finish writing the whole error! I cannot track down an error message with only part of it - "com port..." is not going to be found in the code!

not compilable

[UPDATED 2/19/14]

Here are 3 plug-in samples that show the 3 ways to configure a plugin. One is a standard sample, one is a more basic sample that has simple actions/triggers, and the third shows how to create a multi-instance plugin.

http://homeseer.com/updates3/hs3_plugin_samples.zip

10/19/13 Changes:

* Modified multi-instance sample so it supports both single and multiple EXE modes properly

If I try to compile the plugins I get a lot of errors like
-Error 35 'AddAjaxHandlerPost' is not a member of 'HSPI_SAMPLE.WebTestPage'. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 93 24 HSPI_SAMPLE
-Error 80 'clsJQuery' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 311 24 HSPI_SAMPLE
-Error 32 'divToUpdate' is not a member of 'HSPI_SAMPLE.WebTestPage'. C:\Users\Fabio.Pascolo.BO-DI\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\HSPI_SAMPLE\WebTestPage.vb 54 17 HSPI_SAMPLE

Something wrong?
Thank you

[pawnies20]

Hi
I can only test in hs3 "hspi sample basic", after compilation.
The hspi_sample and hspi_sample_basicMI, in hs3 generates an error "com port..."

How can i use them ?

Thanx

[Kevin Lo]

hs3 only uses exe plugins no dll plugins

Ar .... i think it should remove the HSPI_SAMPLE DLL.vbproj for misleading.

[wetlip]

hs3 only uses exe plugins no dll plugins

[huggy_d1]

Dear All ,

I download the plug-in sample.
I am using VB.Net 2010 Express.

HSPI_SAMPLE\HSPI_SAMPLE.vbproj , I can compile it and save the output EXE to the HS3 directory , start the HS3, in the startup log , I can see the HS3 can search this plugin. No problem at all.

HSPI_SAMPLE\HSPI_SAMPLE DLL.vbproj , I can compile it without error. But it save HSPI_SAMPLE.dll to the HS3 directory , start the HS3 , it cannot find this plug-in.

Any idea ? I stuck on it for a few days already...

Thanks

I thought I read somewhere the new plugins for HS3 go into their own folder, with the folder name being the name of the plugin.

Different than HS2 plugins which just go to the HS2 folder.

[Kevin Lo]

HSPI_SAMPLE.dll problem

Dear All ,

I download the plug-in sample.
I am using VB.Net 2010 Express.

HSPI_SAMPLE\HSPI_SAMPLE.vbproj , I can compile it and save the output EXE to the HS3 directory , start the HS3, in the startup log , I can see the HS3 can search this plugin. No problem at all.

HSPI_SAMPLE\HSPI_SAMPLE DLL.vbproj , I can compile it without error. But it save HSPI_SAMPLE.dll to the HS3 directory , start the HS3 , it cannot find this plug-in.

Any idea ? I stuck on it for a few days already...

Thanks

[Sgt. Shultz]

Yup, I musta' had Dyslexia that day.

The keys collection part is zero based, whereas the object collection part is one based. (a combination of dictionary and collection objects rolled into one.)

You could switch that all to a sorted list I think, but I think you would also want to add some error checking to that as well for adding actions and triggers from the events page.


I made the changes in the project and checked them in.

I'll let Rich know so he can put out a new source code file.

[nfrobertson]

I believe there are a couple off-by-1 errors in the HSPI_SAMPLE_BASIC that had me scratching my head for a bit. Thought I'd post for any other new plugin developers.

plugin.vb line 194 in SubTriggerCount()

trigger = triggers(TriggerNumber - 1)

should be

trigger = triggers(TriggerNumber)

plugin.vb line 221 in SubTriggerName()

Return IFACE_NAME & ": " & trigger.Keys(SubTriggerNumber)

should be

Return IFACE_NAME & ": " & trigger.Keys(SubTriggerNumber - 1)