Getting a state's UI value back to default

So in messing with a plugin I accidentally change the UI value of an Insteon relay to "closed" and it's stuck there. I did the following script to see if it would go back to normal and it sets it to 'off' but it doesn't toggle with power:

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indigo.devices[61003944].updateStateOnServer ("onOffState", False, uiValue="off")


Is there a way I can clear that UI state and tell it to just be nice and play well with others again?

[jay (support)]

Just toggle it in the UI - right? Maybe I'm not understanding the issue...

Just toggle it in the UI - right? Maybe I'm not understanding the issue...

I can do that, but I accidentally changed a device that is not part of my plugin, it's just an Insteon device in my system, now it no longer updates it's state automatically as it's not tied to my plugin I don't have control and would have to now write some trigger that changes the value based on state changes.

So think about it this way, you create brand new Insteon device, when you toggle that device on and off the state display shows "on" or "off". Well now imagine that I accidentally used that ID in a script and gave it a UI state of "hello", it will no longer say "on" or "off" anymore, I now have to set it myself each time and I want to fix my oops and set it back to default.

Does that make sense?

[matt (support)]

Set it to an empty string and it will clear out the uiValue override:

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indigo.devices[61003944].updateStateOnServer ("onOffState", False, uiValue="")

Two life savers in one day, you're on a roll. Thank you!

[jay (support)]

Hmmm - seems like that's a bug. If the script/plugin doesn't own the device, I thought it wasn't possible for it to change the state (and thereby the UI value)...

Hmmm - seems like that's a bug. If the script/plugin doesn't own the device, I thought it wasn't possible for it to change the state (and thereby the UI value)...

That's exactly what I thought too, thus was totally shocked when it happened.

[matt (support)]

I'll chime in here and say that is what I thought as well. Does anyone around here know how this thingie works?

I'll chime in here and say that is what I thought as well. Does anyone around here know how this thingie works?

HAHAHAHA!

I can say this, it's not unique to my plugin because when I ran your script to just clear the UI I did it from an action group script and not my plugin (where I originally broke it). I know I cannot update plugin props but apparently the State and UI are fair game

[matt (support)]

Apparently updating states is private (only allowed by the device owner), but there is an exception for X10 and INSTEON devices. I don't recall the exact reasoning behind that but I believe there were some scripts/plugins that needed the ability to modify states for those devices so we allowed it. At least that is the story I'm going to stick with.

I buy it