Initial deploy

[Pocster]

Hey all

I use some global variables while on my hs client - so I can determine which screen I am on - it works well.
One issue I have is if I deploy whilst not on my initial 'home' screen the global variable isn't reset.

Is there a way to run some startup code on deployment?. Or some way of knowing that this is a first run? i.e. just been deployed - so then I can reset any globals I use.

Cheers

[Guest]

Can you describe how you proceed to determine the screen you are on?

[Pocster]

Can you describe how you proceed to determine the screen you are on?

Sure

I have a main screen ‘home’ ; selecting any icon e.g ‘kitchen’ , ‘bathroom’ etc. Simply sets the global var to that text.
Then I have an event that runs every second and simply runs a script

If current_screen = “kitchen” then ....

Etc .

[Guest]

Thank you,
however,
unless you maintain multiple xml's this wont work across multiple clients.
too bad this is not a native hstouch feature.

[Pocster]

Thank you,
however,
unless you maintain multiple xml's this wont work across multiple clients.
too bad this is not a native hstouch feature.

You are of course correct. Would be so much nicer if you could have global variables available to all clients ( as is now ) but also 'global' variables specific to a particular client. I really don't want multiple xml's - that's just too much work!. Can just hope that HS add this rather critical feature.

[Guest]

In case it has been missed, there is a way to determine which client has made a request (and without having multiple projects). I have implemented it, and it works quite well.

https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...nt#post1390216

[Guest]

Yes, it's already on my ever growing todo list
Just wish the integration was done in the core product to minimize the extra scripting.