Telling HS to add icon.

[Rotech]

How can you tell HS to add a icon (other then blades BLICON) to a device in your status page which I have stored in a folder? I have a virtual device that I would like to add a icon.

[TeleFragger]

How can you tell HS to add a icon (other then blades BLICON) to a device in your status page which I have stored in a folder? I have a virtual device that I would like to add a icon.

well there is the way where you use vb.net scripting.. which I do not know how to do...


or use utrastatus by ultrajones....

[mnsandler]

How can you tell HS to add a icon (other then blades BLICON) to a device in your status page which I have stored in a folder? I have a virtual device that I would like to add a icon.

use can use the hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd method.

2 things to keep in mind/consider:

- the icons are associated with the device values (not device status). thus you must set a device value in order to get the icon to change.

- the icon displayed on the status page is independent of the devicestring (so if you use DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd and blicon) you will get two icons.

[Rotech]

use can use the hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd method.

2 things to keep in mind/consider:

- the icons are associated with the device values (not device status). thus you must set a device value in order to get the icon to change.

Can you give an example, please..

[mnsandler]

example of devicevaluesgraphicsadd method

hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd ("A1", "\images\device\camera.gif" + chr(2) + "100" + chr(1) + "\images\device\camera_off.gif" + chr(2) + "0")

where value 100 represents ON and value 0 represents OFF

these are standard on/off x10 values

i use this on an x10 appliance that controls a camera

[Moskus]

Nice tip!

What do I do if I want to remove the custom icons?

[mnsandler]

hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd ("A1", "")

[Moskus]

Hmm... this doesn't work for me.

hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd("Q2", "\devices\Ferie-On.gif" + chr(2) + "100" + chr(1) + "\devices\Ferie-Off.gif" + chr(2) + "0")


And I've placed the "devices" folder in the \html\images\HomSeer folder. What am I doing wrong?

[Rupp]

It would need to be \images\devices\Ferie-On.gif

[Moskus]

And then the full (and local) path should be something like:
C:\program files\HomeSeer 2\html\Images\devices\Ferie-On.gif

Right?


EDIT: Still no luck.
It's a standard On/Off device with nothing "funny" added. I just thought some better describing icons would be nice. "Ferie" is norwegian for vacation...

[mnsandler]

to make sure the icon gif is in the right place, try the following from your browser. change localhost if you are not running this on the HS server

http://localhost/images/devices/ferie-on.gif

this icon should be displayed

[rc_sportpilot]

All,

I'm calling a simple 2 line script at startup:

hs.devicevaluesadd "E1", "Open" & chr(2) & "100" & chr(1) & "Closed" & chr(2) & "0",false

hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd "E1", "\images\device\garageopen.gif" & chr(2) & "100" & chr(1) & "images\device\garageclosed.gif" & chr(2) & "0"

The icon works great, but there is no text status next to it. How do I get that back?

[rragan]

Are these settings permanent or do they have to be called on as needed?

[Rotech]

hs.DeviceValuesGraphicsAdd ("A1", "\images\device\camera.gif" + chr(2) + "100" + chr(1) + "\images\device\camera_off.gif" + chr(2) + "0")

where value 100 represents ON and value 0 represents OFF

these are standard on/off x10 values

i use this on an x10 appliance that controls a camera

Sorry for the stupid question, but where do you add these commands? (what place).

[Rupp]

The command window, Immediate script command works for these.