HS3 Plugin Samples

[donstephens]

I don't think so. I have the compiler set for any CPU. The computer I'm using as a development is 32-bit, running XP, while the target is a 64-bit. I do have Scheduler, Homeseerapi and HSCF are all
copying local.

Are you compiling for a 64-bit CPU? Scheduler.dll is 32-bit. Also, in your project references, do you have 'copy locall' set to true?

[NicolaiL]

I don't think so. I have the compiler set for any CPU. The computer I'm using as a development is 32-bit, running XP, while the target is a 64-bit. I do have Scheduler, Homeseerapi and HSCF are all
copying local.

I had problems with CPU set for any. I have mine set for x86 on all my projects.

I tend to have the output path local to my compiler and then run the PI from my compiler when I debug. Once I'm happy with a version I copy it manually to the HS3 directory and run it from there.

[beerygaz]

If you're mixing CP architecture between release and debug platforms, especially when the HS3 assemblies are 32-bit only then you will run into issues.

Try forcing 32-bit and try again?

[donstephens]

Why not?

Will give it a go.

[maikelwijnen]

i try to find out whitch sample is the best basis for my plugin.
The problem is that i only can get the SAMPLE BASIC to work just a litlebit (Can't get furder at stap "Connected, waiting to be initialized..."
The other 2 compile also fine, but when startup Homeseer the plugin get grayed out.

I can't get the finger on the hotspot.
Does anyone get the same bump? or even nicer a solution?

*EDIT*
Just select at PROJECT > COMPILE > TARGET CPU > X86
Found in early post's

[jcc]

Denon plugin

Have you registered your plugin? There is no Com port selected.

[Aqua-Passion]

Hello
I searched how to run code every minute in a plugin
I searched the forum and samples plugins but I have not found
thanks

[mnsandler]

Hello
I searched how to run code every minute in a plugin
I searched the forum and samples plugins but I have not found
thanks

you just need to build a timer class

[beerygaz]

In your InitIO spawn a new thread which loops forever with Thread.Sleep(60000) in the loop.

If you want more accurate than that then look into using something like the Quartz .net library.


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[Aqua-Passion]

I had not thought so simple :-p
Thanks you very much for your help

[Aqua-Passion]

I have a strange thing with "HSPI_SAMPLE_BASIC"
when I enable it cpu go to about 40% it's ok
then i disable it , cpu go to 80%
re enable it , cpu load stay at 80 %
re disable it , cpu load go to 98 -100 %
someone else has the problem?

[Aqua-Passion]

I have the same thing with the "HSPI_SAMPLE" plugin

[travisdh]

Has anyone tried the sample_basic on their linux install as is. I have tried it on mine and for some reason when I fire it up and go to set an event triggered on recieve command (and select a value from the dropdown list of the SAMPLE-BASIC plugin, I get an error as per the below:

Exception deserializing message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Has anyone seen this error with the sample plugin, and if so how did you resolve this error as I believe this is the same error I am seeing with my plugins and my Linux build but I have no idea what is causing it.

Many thanks!

[happnatious1]

I'm struggling with trying to serialize an action in buildUI. In the below example from Rick near the bottom it shows returning stringMultiReturn (which I guess is trigactioninfo with my serialized object tacked on to it). But I get the error Ret cannot be converted to type string. What am I doing wrong?

For simplicity I will refer to just Triggers, but it is the same whether triggers or actions.

If DataIn is nothing or an array of 0 bytes, then you never gave anything to HS to store in DataOut, so I would expect deserialize to fail.

Here is how it works: When somebody changes something in TriggerBuildUI it causes TriggerProcessPostUI to be called. Let's say the user configured a trigger by entering into fields you put on the UI the values 'Widget' and 12345. You need to save those values because it is your trigger, so you have two ways you can do it. You can create YOUR own storage mechanism and use the information in strTrigActInfo such as the UID, the evRef, trigger number and sub trigger number as an index... or you can have HS3 store those values for you. To have HS3 store the values, you create some sort of object that is serializeable to hold the values the user entered, like this:

<Serializable()> _
Friend Class MyTriggerData
    Friend ProductName As String = ""
    Friend ProductSKU As Integer
End Class

Then, you put those values in the object like this:

        Dim MyData As New MyTriggerData
        MyData.ProductName = "Widget"
        MyData.ProductSKU = 12345

Then you serialize that object like this:

        Dim bteArray() As Byte = Nothing
        If Not SerializeObject(MyData, bteArray) Then Throw New Exception("Dag Nabbit, another error.")

Then you put the serialized object into the DataOut parameter of strMultiReturn like this:

        Dim Ret As New strMultiReturn
        Ret.sResult = ""                ' Empty return indicates success!
        Ret.TrigActInfo = TrigInfoIn    ' Trig info does not change, just pass through what we received...
        Ret.DataOut = bteArray

        Return Ret

And now, each time BuildUI, TriggerFormatUI, and TriggerProcessPostUI are called, the DataIN will be populated with that byte array you stored. In TriggerProcessPostUI you can update/change it by again passing it as DataOut, but in the other functions you would deserialize it just so that you have the data to use in the function.

Make sense?

FYI... One other twist to deserialization which is commented in the procedure... In order for deserialization to know that the structure or object that the data is going into matches where it came from, you have to pass a non-null object TO deserialization, even though the purpose of calling that is to get an object back filled with information.

So you would think that you could call it like this:

        Dim MyData As MyTriggerData
        If Not DeSerializeObject(TrigInfoIn.DataIn, MyData) Then Throw New Exception("Oh Poo!")

but the way you REALLY need to call it is like this:

        Dim MyData As [COLOR="Red"][B]New[/B][/COLOR] MyTriggerData
        If Not DeSerializeObject(TrigInfoIn.DataIn, MyData) Then Throw New Exception("Oh Poo!")

[Kirby]

I'm struggling with trying to serialize an action in buildUI. In the below example from Rick near the bottom it shows returning stringMultiReturn (which I guess is trigactioninfo with my serialized object tacked on to it). But I get the error Ret cannot be converted to type string. What am I doing wrong?

Where is your code?