Devices as objects in RM

[maffpt]

It makes sense!

Since each room device names begin with a preffix that identifies the room (Qn - from Quarto - room in Portuguese - and n, for room number) I can use the feature described bellow to identify programmaticaly the room:

Extracting a token from a String Variable

In Release 2.1.5.123 there is a new advanced feature in Rule Machine that allows you to extract a token from a string, including from a String Variable. [02%20AM] Notice that the string used above is 123-456-7890. The Delimiter is the character (or characters) that will be used to break the string into tokens; "-" above. The index selects which token we want, starting with 0 for the left-most token. So, in this case, the result stored in Charlie would be 123. That's not very useful as sho…

I must confess that I still have some difficult in abstracting the problems into RM features/capabilities. But I'm optmistic and I'm sure I'll get there!

By the way, is it possible to set a variable to a device attribute? I found this post ...

Capturing custom attributes into variables

Look under set variable. [image] Then pick the variable the pick device attribute and then the device you want. You'll then get a list of all the attributes for that device.

but I couldn't find the option "device attribute" here.

Thanks for the prompt response!!