Plug-in support on Linux (Plug-in authors please read!)

[ZoRaC]

rjh so you replied to a nearly two year old
question, but ignored the one I posted earlier today...?

[Pete]

Thank you Rich.

Its been years now that I have switched over to running Homeseer 3 in Linux.

MONO is always changing and some version in the future could break it. Also, its REALLY slow.

Yes it is what makes my Ubuntu boxes run so slow whatever Intel, AMD, ARM CPU or amount of memory.

[rjh]

Hate when that happens! The post date is this teeny tiny text!

In regards GetOSType here is the prototype:

Public Function GetOSType() As eOSType Implements HomeSeerAPI.IHSApplication.GetOSType

And the return values:

Public Enum eOSType
windows = 0
linux = 1
End Enum

This call is fully supported.

rjh so you replied to a nearly two year old
question, but ignored the one I posted earlier today...?

[ZoRaC]

Hate when that happens! The post date is this teeny tiny text!

In regards GetOSType here is the prototype:

Public Function GetOSType() As eOSType Implements HomeSeerAPI.IHSApplication.GetOSType

And the return values:

Public Enum eOSType
windows = 0
linux = 1
End Enum

This call is fully supported.

But why isn’t it in the documentation? Are we supposed to stumble upon this thread to find out this function exists? I was planning on using getapppath and checking if it contained “/“ or “\”, since that was the only way I found...

[rjh]

Because documentation takes resources that we have been short of? Honest answer here. You can use intellisense to browse all the functions, so they are not hard to find.

That being said, we are updating the docs so new docs will be available soon.

But why isn’t it in the documentation? Are we supposed to stumble upon this thread to find out this function exists? I was planning on using getapppath and checking if it contained “/“ or “\”, since that was the only way I found...

[ZoRaC]

Because documentation takes resources that we have been short of? Honest answer here. You can use intellisense to browse all the functions, so they are not hard to find.

That being said, we are updating the docs so new docs will be available soon.

For 6 years? Time to hire some more staff then...

I'm not a plugin-developer, I just create simple scripts in the "run script"-editor... So I use the documentation provided and normally don't have access to intellisense...
As far as I know, there are a lot of tools to autogenerate documentation for functions in code, as long as they are commented "correctly" (like ReadTheDocs, JAVADoc, etc).
A SDK/library is only as good as it's documentation...

[rjh]

Just get the free ver of Visual studio, create a sample project and add a reference to the Scheduler. You will then have intellisense. We are adding more docs to the actual functions so intellisense gives you the docs right there.

We have hired more staff, hence better docs on the way.

If you guys would buy more stuff from us we would have more staff

For 6 years? Time to hire some more staff then...

I'm not a plugin-developer, I just create simple scripts in the "run script"-editor... So I use the documentation provided and normally don't have access to intellisense...
As far as I know, there are a lot of tools to autogenerate documentation for functions in code, as long as they are commented "correctly" (like ReadTheDocs, JAVADoc, etc).
A SDK/library is only as good as it's documentation...

[ZoRaC]

If you guys would buy more stuff from us we would have more staff

Would be happy to, but you seem to think world == USA... can’t find a single product I can buy from you guys...!

[rjh]

I know, selling product outside the US has been a challenge. There are no standards in wall switches outside the US, so that kind of product is impossible to build at volume. We could do some sensors, but then importing them here, then shipping them there, just costs a fortune. Our controllers do work everywhere if you get the correct interface, so that's something.

Would be happy to, but you seem to think world == USA... can’t find a single product I can buy from you guys...!