App and driver porting to Hubitat

brennonscuderi · October 12, 2018, 11:39pm

see I knew there was a reason I posted here instead of messing with it all day hahah Ill look into this new one as it sounds way more capable. Thanks for the link

Cobra · October 12, 2018, 11:44pm

Search is your friend

brennonscuderi · October 13, 2018, 12:28am

Yeah I've often said that to other people.. I guess I just got focused on porting over my existing handler instead of looking for a new project. hence how I found this thread haha. This integration works way better than my old one so thanks for the solid recommendation!

kraig109 · October 23, 2018, 4:56pm

Would be nice to see this community post converted over to the new docs.hubitat.com if that is the new home for official documentation.

mike · October 29, 2018, 9:57am

Is it true that we are replace st with he? I vaguely recall seeing that a few weeks ago, but cant find it now, and st and he are too short on which to search.
such as this:
"st cmd 0x${device.deviceNetworkId} 0x12 0x0006 0x0 {}"

chuck.schwer · October 30, 2018, 7:54pm

4 posts were split to a new topic: sendHubCommand in Driver

arnb · November 26, 2018, 4:51pm

remove ("any text")

Not supported
Change to paragraph "text"

arnb · November 29, 2018, 7:48pm

findAllChildAppsByName('app name')
fails with
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: app15434399313021801853038.findAllChildAppsByName() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: [SHM Delay Simkypd Child] on line 1062 (keypadModeHandler)

ALso setting label name from an input setting does nothing
input "simkeypad", "device.InternetKeypad", multiple: false, required:true, submitOnChange: true, title: "Simulated Keypad Device"

	if (simkeypad)
		{
		section() 
			{
			label title: "Profile name", defaultValue: "Profile: Ikpd: ${simkeypad}", required: false
			}
		}

arnb · February 22, 2019, 2:35pm

Need some help converting the following ST zigbee library code
log.debug "Sending Status ${zigbee.convertToHexString(status)}${zigbee.convertToHexString(seconds)} to device..."

keeps throwing
[error](http://192.168.0.106/device/edit/194)groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: com.hubitat.zigbee.Zigbee.convertToHexString() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.Integer) values: [2] Possible solutions: convertToHexString(java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Integer) on line 449

I've tried Integer.convertToHexString and integer.convertToHexString, both fail.

I hope someone has an answer.

stephack · February 22, 2019, 4:53pm

From ST documentation:

zigbee.convertToHexString()

Convert the given value to a hex string of given width

Signature:

zigbee.convertToHexString(Integer value, Integer width)

COPY

Parameters:

value : Integer value to be converted

width : the minimum width of the hex string. Default value is 2

Looks like you need a second "width" parameter

Maybe
${zigbee.convertToHexString(status,2)}${zigbee.convertToHexString(seconds,2)}

stephack · February 22, 2019, 4:56pm

OR
you may need to convert "status" and "seconds" to integers beforehand

${zigbee.convertToHexString(status.toInteger())}${zigbee.convertToHexString(seconds.toInteger())}

JasonJoelOld · February 22, 2019, 5:14pm

This one is my guess. But I haven't used that function in HE, that I can remember.

mlciskey · February 22, 2019, 5:34pm

I believe there is a second parameter to that function

zigbee.convertToHexString()

Convert the given value to a hex string of given width

Signature:

zigbee.convertToHexString(Integer value, Integer width)

COPY

Parameters:

value : Integer value to be converted
width : the minimum width of the hex string. Default value is 2

arnb · February 22, 2019, 5:35pm

Thank you, that fixed it! I swear I tried that before asking for help and it failed. However, this time it worked. I guess the default value, 2, did not make it into HE.

@mlciskey @JasonJoelOld Thank you for responding.

arnb · February 26, 2019, 8:51pm

driver sendEvent difference
In a driver after issuing a sendEvent for an attribute,

sendEvent(name: "armMode", value: armMode)

then subsequently in the same event issuing a

device.currentState("armMode")

the value of the attribute at the beginning of the event is returned, not the current actual value as done in ST

The solution

Sendevent command not instantaneous?

Yes, we cache these values for performance sake. typically you never need to access the value that you just sent.. ie in your example you are asking for the armMode but you just set the armMode 2 lines above.

If you really want to do this, or you need the non-cached current value, pass true as the second parameter:
def devarmMode = device.currentValue("armMode", true)
def devarmState = device.currentState("armMode", true)
The second parameter is "skip cache"

chuck.schwer · February 26, 2019, 9:13pm

Again, I want to caution that using this method can add more load on your hub that is not needed. It does not make sense to set a value and then immediately look up that same value in most cases.

srwhite · February 26, 2019, 9:15pm

I agree with you. If the purpose is to validate that a command took, a runIn() call is the more efficient way to handle it. In my opinion. And that's exactly how I implemented the test procedures in my Z-Wave Repeater driver.

arnb · February 26, 2019, 9:19pm

I understand. However, sometimes a low level of overhead is easier when porting a ST DTH to a HE driver

In my situation I have an easy workaround and when I tried the true option it did not work.

Edit: As Chuck mentioned the sendEvent command is queued by the system, so even using the "true" option may not get the value in the sendEvent command because it has not executed. If you bump into this fix the logic or code a workaround.

staze · March 20, 2019, 3:59pm

Couple I've found.

isNumber() and toInteger() are both string functions (for converting numeric strings to integers). Also toDecimal(), etc. According to Groovy spec, that is.

On ST, if you pass these an integer, they fail silently/gracefully. In HE, they error out. I'd argue ST is wrong to have them fail silently, but it's a difference that will have you pulling hair out as you go and change all your variable "checks")

arnb · April 8, 2019, 10:42pm

findAllChildAppsByName('app name') fails
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method:

Is findAllChildAppsByName('app name') supported?

If not, does getChildApps() work?