How Do I Trigger Manual Polling of Devices?

[jeanv]

Mark, I want to be able to poll Insteon devices for status through either a script or an event on demand the same way you can select "Poll Devices For Status" icon in the GUI. Will this poll which KPL Buttons (not load) are ON as well?

How can this be done?

[mnsandler]

Your best bet is the standard hs polldevice method.

here is the hs3 protocol for a vb.net script

Public Function PollDevice(ByVal dvref As Integer) As IPlugInAPI.PollResultInfo Implements HomeSeerAPI.IPlugInAPI.PollDevice

it's a little different for hs2

Public Function PollDevice(ByVal ref As Integer, ByVal housecode As String, ByVal devicecode As String) As String

[jeanv]

Mark,

I am running HS3, would you do me the small favor of showing me the PollDevice method in use in an example script in vb.net (I assume 1 or 2 lines of code once you have the device reference)?

I do not understand the class IPlugInAPI.PollResultInfo Implements HomeSeerAPI.IPlugInAPI.PollDevice

Say an Insteon 8 button KPL had a device reference of 230, would a call to the PollDevice method on device ref 230 return anything or just simply populate the current and proper value and status of the 8 buttons on the KPL device in HomeSeer?

[mnsandler]

check out this thread. is discusses polling, specifically post #4

don't worry about the "Implements HomeSeerAPI.IPlugInAPI.PollDevice"

your return class is IPlugInAPI.PollResultInfo

[jeanv]

There was no link I saw, what thread?

[mnsandler]

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=172150