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It works great. A few application notes to help others...
-Use SetMessage only once or on the occasion that you want to change the format of a screen you want to show (i.e font, animation or whatever). As an alternative, you can set up the sign labels manually in the plugin settings for each sign.
-Call SetString as often as you want with the message content you want. The sign will only update the necessary dots.
-Do not try to put any of the formatting labels in the SetString call, only your text.
By following these guidelines, you can make the sign look smooth when using it for something like a time and temperature display. Instead of flashing the entire display every minute (which will happen if you call SetMessage every minute), only the necessary text changes.
I hope this helps others.
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Originally posted by Rick Tinker View PostIn case people were confused...
Enabling multi-instance support will allow you to create instances from the Interfaces page, so it is not necessary to manually run additional instances from the command line. Instances that you create at the interfaces page will be started automatically when HomeSeer starts.
If there is no desire to allow the serial port for the display to be on another computer, then multi-instance is not required as the ability to add more signs/displays could be done in the plug-in. The multi-instance support should however allow you to connect your display to a computer OTHER than your HomeSeer system, but still have HomeSeer and the plug-in communicate.
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Originally posted by Automated View PostIt works great. A few application notes to help others...
-Use SetMessage only once or on the occasion that you want to change the format of a screen you want to show (i.e font, animation or whatever). As an alternative, you can set up the sign labels manually in the plugin settings for each sign.
-Call SetString as often as you want with the message content you want. The sign will only update the necessary dots.
-Do not try to put any of the formatting labels in the SetString call, only your text.
By following these guidelines, you can make the sign look smooth when using it for something like a time and temperature display. Instead of flashing the entire display every minute (which will happen if you call SetMessage every minute), only the necessary text changes.
I hope this helps others.
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AlHS 4.2.8.0: 2134 Devices 1252 Events
Z-Wave 3.0.10.0: 133 Nodes on one Z-Net
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I don't know. I wanted a single line of text, the time followed by the outside temperature, without worrying at all about ever setting the sign time. I was thinking that in this way HS can just fully manage them. I guess if we figure out the way to use the internal time, then the benefit would be that it keeps updating even if HS is not running.
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Originally posted by Blade View Postthere are other keywords I have not documented yet - likely because I have not had time to test them
I tried {calldate} to show the date and it works, but it looks like the year is not set correctly with the SetDateTime Method. The time, the day and the month are correct, but the year shows as 1998. Do you see the same?
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AlHS 4.2.8.0: 2134 Devices 1252 Events
Z-Wave 3.0.10.0: 133 Nodes on one Z-Net
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I have posted 1.0.22 to the HS3 updater
- I have changed the LED maintenance page
- I have added the ability to use special variables in the string values (see the tab in the LED maintenance page for strings)
See this thread for more info on using the special tags in the strings:
http://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=168244
There are examples in the help web page as well
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Blade,
When I try to blank out Text label "A" and save it. This field still show the old value. if I change the value of Text label "A" to something else it works.
also do this function:
hs.PluginFunction("BLLED", "", "SetString", New Object(){1, "1", "test"})
save the value of "test" in string label 1?
Thank you
Greg Mack
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