Device ID returning -1

[DavidLiles]

I'm tinkering with an example from the HS documentation... getting the ID of a device by device name is turning out to be problematic for some reason. I'm populating a variable with the device name and when the code executes the device ID value is -1 but when I replace the variable with the actual device name text that is populating the variable I get the device ID.

Dim objCAPIControl As CAPIControl
Dim dvRef As Integer
dvRef = hs.GetDeviceRefByName("" & room & device & "")
hs.WriteLog("BuildRequest()", "deviceID: " & dvRef)
hs.WriteLog("BuildRequest()", "devicename: " & room & device)
objCAPIControl = hs.CAPIGetSingleControlByUse(dvRef, ePairControlUse._On)
If objCAPIControl IsNot Nothing Then
   hs.CAPIControlHandler(objCAPIControl)
End If

From the log using the variables

deviceID: -1
devicename: kitchen light

From the log using entered text

deviceID: 81
devicename: kitchen light

I'm at a loss why I'm getting a -1 value when I'm populating with valid device values

[bsobel]

Quickly looking at this it appears your are passing the string KitchenLight vs Kitchen Light. Change the GetDevice to room & " " & device....

[DavidLiles]

bsobel - When I use the two variables together I made sure there was a space incorporated with one of them... but I manually added a space as you suggested and didn't get a different result.... still returning -1

[DavidLiles]

Finally discovered the cause. Going line by line, I found a Trim() function was being applied to the variables in a parsing routine that gets called. Removing that resolved the issue.