[UPDATED] - Message Central - Make your home speak

aaron · October 16, 2018, 11:42am

I truly appreciate what you have done and the amazing agility in your coding additions.

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 12:23pm

@aaron
You need to get your weather device ready for this afternoon

Andy

aaron · October 16, 2018, 12:40pm

Sweet! Which DH are you supporting?

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 12:43pm

Anything that has the attribute 'alert'

Obviously both of my drivers will work (WU and Weewx)
@Matthew's excellent ' Weather-Display Driver' should also work as I know that his driver reports the correct attribute.

BTW...
Hit your child app 'Check For Update' button

Andy

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 12:49pm

If you are using a different driver then, unfortunately, if it doesn't send the attribute 'alert' this won't work.
You would need to ask the driver's author to add the attribute

Andy

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 1:00pm

@Royski @DeveloperDavidB
Guys
This version also includes a switch to enable/disable the 'poll' of the weather device for weather attributes other than 'Alert'
This should remove the error you were getting as your weather device does not respond to the poll command (if you switch it off! )

Andy

Royski · October 16, 2018, 1:14pm

Got the push regarding an update, very nice

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 1:37pm

Guys,
I've been working on something I would like your opinion on..

As I have quite a few app 'on the go' now, I though it might be quite useful to include them all in one container called 'Cobra Apps' (or whatever you want to rename it to )

So instead of looking something like this in your apps list:

It could look something like this:

You wouldn't see the child apps at the top level
So you would need to click on 'Message Central' under 'Cobra Apps' before you see the individual Message Central child apps that you have created.

I just though it might help organise and clean up the apps list a bit.

So... time for another poll/survey..

Good Idea - It would be useful
Bad Idea - I like it they way it is!

0 voters

Please vote and let me know your thoughts on this

Andy

Royski · October 16, 2018, 1:46pm

Great idea! I like a de-cluttered look

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 2:23pm

#meToo

Cobra · October 16, 2018, 2:24pm

Now the bad news...

You will probably have to recreate all the child apps !

Royski · October 16, 2018, 2:24pm

Why is there no "dislike" button on these comments

aaron · October 17, 2018, 2:04am

@Cobra
Thank you Andy!! Wow this is great! Won't be able to provide feedback until we get some severe weather but I appreciate that you did this so fast. Is there a way for me to financially contribute/donate?

Cobra · October 17, 2018, 7:03am

A donation is not required but always welcome!
Have a look at the top of my code

Andy

aaron · October 17, 2018, 5:26pm

Awesome! Thanks!!

Also, is there a way to test the alerting within MC?

aaron · October 17, 2018, 5:28pm

Just sent you a gift! Thanks again for everything you do!

Cobra · October 17, 2018, 5:40pm

Thank you very much for your donation

Cobra · October 17, 2018, 5:58pm

What do you want to test?

Andy

aaron · October 17, 2018, 6:06pm

Just that the severe weather alert works.

bjcowles · October 17, 2018, 8:54pm

When testing my Weather Switch setup, I went to the NWS site, found a location with active alerts, and then changed the location in my weather device to match it. As soon as I hit save, the first poll activated everything. Just make sure you pause any rules that are already tied into that weather device.