Pushalot send RFXcom sensor panel message?

[jlrichar]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to send the sensor panel string from the RFXcom plugin.

The RFXcom has an example on how to send an e-mail with a vb script:

Sub Main(Optional ByVal pParms As String = "")     
     message = hs.PluginFunction("RFXCOM","","GetLastSensorMessage", nothing)
     hs.SendEmail("tst@hotmail.com", "tst@mserv.nl", "Sensor", message) 
End Sub

Are there pushalot scripting commands I could use to send the message? In case it is not obvious I do not have much experience with scripting in HS. I like the plugin! Any help is much appreciated.

[stefxx]

No, there are currently no scripting options with the Pushalot plugin. Perhaps you could create an event to send the message, use replacement variables for the title and/or message to reflect the RFXcom text and run the event from the script (with hs.TriggerEvent("EventName"))?

But I don't think adding a scripting option to the plugin is all that difficult so please convince me that it is really necessary and I will consider adding it

[jlrichar]

No, there are currently no scripting options with the Pushalot plugin. Perhaps you could create an event to send the message, use replacement variables for the title and/or message to reflect the RFXcom text and run the event from the script (with hs.TriggerEvent("EventName"))?

But I don't think adding a scripting option to the plugin is all that difficult so please convince me that it is really necessary and I will consider adding it

How would I use a replacement variable to get the string from the RFXcom device?

I have a lot of windows 8 devices, and a lot of iOS devices. For the windows devices your plugin works great, for the iOS devices I use the pushover plugin which works great. For many notifications I want them on both groups of devices. Even though the pushover plugin has scripting I have not figured out how to do this with that yet--though I only tried briefly today. If you want to add scripting there may be others that use it. If you do I will update this thread with how I use it. I am a scripting newb, so not sure how much help I can be.

Oh, and thanks again for the plugin!

[stefxx]

Whoeps... I was just checking the code to see if I could implement a script function... but it seems I though of this before! The function has always been there, I just "forgot" to document it

Here is the function:
Public Function SendPushalot(Title As String, Body As String, IsImportant As Boolean, IsSilent As Boolean, Optional Source As String = "Homeseer", Optional Image As String = "", Optional TimeToLive As Integer = 43200, Optional LinkTitle As String = "", Optional Link As String = "") As Boolean

And here is a tested example:
hs.PluginFunction("Pushalot", "", "SendPushalot", New Object() {"Title", "Body", True, False, "Homeseer", "http://homeseer.com/updates3/icons/Plug-In.gif", 1440, "", ""})

Good luck!

[jlrichar]

Whoeps... I was just checking the code to see if I could implement a script function... but it seems I though of this before! The function has always been there, I just "forgot" to document it

Here is the function:
Public Function SendPushalot(Title As String, Body As String, IsImportant As Boolean, IsSilent As Boolean, Optional Source As String = "Homeseer", Optional Image As String = "", Optional TimeToLive As Integer = 43200, Optional LinkTitle As String = "", Optional Link As String = "") As Boolean

And here is a tested example:
hs.PluginFunction("Pushalot", "", "SendPushalot", New Object() {"Title", "Body", True, False, "Homeseer", "http://homeseer.com/updates3/icons/Plug-In.gif", 1440, "", ""})

Good luck!

Thanks for the scripting--works perfectly! I'm still trying to debug the RFXcom script. http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...53#post1165253