How do I get alert information from a script with Alert#:Trigger#

[mrceolla]

My apologies if this was covered somewhere but I could not locate anything on the boards about this.

It would appear that the alert trigger script option will run the sub Main() with a single parameter of a packed string with two pieces of information separated by a semicolon. No custom parameters can be passed.

My question... How can I retrieve all of the alert information from a scrip with the supplied information (Alert#:Trigger#)? I don't want to reply on HS3 devices and would like to be able to access all of the #variable# replacement values.

Thank you!

[CFGuy]

I won't be home until late this evening. But will look this up for you.
I think the light at the end of the tunnel is me getting back to a more normal schedule.

I may need to add some more public functions to get exactly what you want.

[CFGuy]

When you set the alert trigger to run a script it sends the alert id and trigger id. With the alert id, the script can call a function in the plugin.
The variable sText is the text that you put the variables in. You can use any logic that you want to build the text.

Once you have your text ready the script calls the public function replaceVariablesAlert.
The params are alert ID, replace text, triggered.

sVar will be available after the function call to use it in emails, speaking, etc.

Since this is expected to be called by a trigger, it is expected that there is an alert to use to replace the variables. Calling the function when there are no alerts or with an invalid alerted will put some error messages in your log.

Hope this helps with what you are wanting to do.

 Sub Main(Optional ByVal Params As String = "")
    Dim aParams As Array
    Dim sVar as string
    Dim sText = "This is an alert #alertTitle#."
    aParams = Params.Split(":")
 
    hs.WriteLog("Test","Param 1 = " & aParams(0))
    hs.WriteLog("Test","Param 2 = " & aParams(1))

     sVar = hs.PluginFunction("weatherXML","","replaceVariablesAlert", new Object(){aParams(0),sText, aParams(1)})
     
      hs.WriteLog("Test", sVar)
 End Sub 

[mrceolla]

Sorry I didn't reply right away. I didn't get an email notification. I think this will work perfectly. This could help me get around the issue I am having in this thread if it is not able to be resolved:

http://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?p=1253801

I could use your code snipped to have just one trigger and program a script to send just an email, or an email and a shorter text, depending on the alert level. I'd still be interested in figuring out why my setup outlined in the thread above is not working.

Much thanks!

[CFGuy]

I should be able to start working on my plugins again. The position change at work took a lot more time then I had thought it would.

But for now, I would suggest using the script.
I have a pretty big list of things to work on at this point.

[basshook]

I used the Alert Triggers to run a script, hoping to utilize the alert global variables. The problem I was having is that the global variables were not set at the same time the weather trigger occurred.

As a workaround, I trigger the script based on the value change of the alert device. The global alert variables, which have all the information needed, are available at that time.

Jeff, the request I would have for the future is to ensure the alert global variables have been set before issuing the alert trigger.

Thx,
-ron

[CFGuy]

I've added your request to my to do list.