Passing Element Values from HSTouch to Virtual Device

[ezmaass]

Hello,

I'm trying to pass a user-entered numeric value on HSTouch to a Virtual Device. I'd like to use the user entered value to set the state of the virtual device.

For example, if I have various states setup on the device (0, 1, 2, etc.) I'd like the user to be able to enter a number and pass it back to set the virtual device state. Has anyone found a good method to do this?

I've tried associating a text box with a virtual device with no luck (maybe because the values can be more than just numeric?). I've been trying to avoid going the script route, but it looks like that may be an option as HSTouch elements values can be sent as parameters to a script, and presumably I can then set a device state based on the parameter within the script. I've not done any scripting with HomeSeer, but I expect it isn't THAT difficult?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[jgreenberg01]

Easy peasy-ish.

You pass the entered value from HSTouch to a script, then have the script save the value in a virtual device. Here's a script I use for updating an alarm timer:

Sub Main(ByVal parm As Object)

	Dim inputcode
	' Get new alarm timeout from HSTouch
	inputcode = parm(0).ToString ' get input code
	Dim NewTimeout
	NewTimeout = inputcode

	If NewTimeout < 15 then
		hs.Speak("Delay must be at least 15 seconds")
	Else		
		hs.SetDeviceStringByName("AlarmTimeout",NewTimeout,true)
		hs.Speak("Arming delay changed to " & NewTimeout & " seconds")
	End If	

End Sub

[ezmaass]

Easy peasy-ish.

You pass the entered value from HSTouch to a script, then have the script save the value in a virtual device. Here's a script I use for updating an alarm timer:

Sub Main(ByVal parm As Object)

Dim inputcode
' Get new alarm timeout from HSTouch
inputcode = parm(0).ToString ' get input code
Dim NewTimeout
NewTimeout = inputcode

If NewTimeout < 15 then
hs.Speak("Delay must be at least 15 seconds")
Else
hs.SetDeviceStringByName("AlarmTimeout",NewTimeout,true)
hs.Speak("Arming delay changed to " & NewTimeout & " seconds")
End If

End Sub

Thank you! Yes, my assumption here was that I may need to resort to a script.

I'll need to take a look at the scripting documentation and give it try that way. Thanks for the reply!

[ezmaass]

So, it looks like the scripting documentation is very thin - am I missing something, perhaps? Can someone point me at a comprehensive set of documentation around the hs libraries? What I've seen online is very basic and only provides high level examples but nothing comprehensive to allow me to discover all of the functions for interacting with devices.

Thanks - apologies if I'm just missing it!

[tenholde]

http://help.homeseer.com/help/HS3/static/#.scripting

https://homeseer.github.io/Plugin-SD...r.html?tabs=cs

[ezmaass]

http://help.homeseer.com/help/HS3/static/#.scripting

https://homeseer.github.io/Plugin-SD...r.html?tabs=cs

Thank you - I'll take a look there!