device.xml problem with id=...

When I change iPhoneBLE to iPhoneBLEx in my device.xml or anything else but "iPhoneBLE"

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    <Device type="custom" id="iPhoneBLE">
      <Name>BLE-connect</Name>
      <UiDisplayStateId>status</UiDisplayStateId>
...
 

and NO OTHER CHANGE WHAT SO EVER

My selection option go from

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to just "BLE-connect" nothing else.

what could I be doing wrong?


Karl

[matt (support)]

Any clues/errors in the Event Log window?

Nothing in the log



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[matt (support)]

I'm puzzled as to why that would occur... If you want to email us a .zip'd up version of the plugin that shows the problem we can try to reproduce (and debug) into it here.

Matt,

he ethe plugin.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/16bdyjgygfgeev8/piBeacon-v-1-17-6.zip?dl=1

to reproduce the problem: change in device.xml line 653
<Device type="custom" id="iPhoneBLE">
to eg
<Device type="custom" id="iPhoneBLEx">

But I don't know if the plugin actually works without any rPi active for these devices.

there might be a problem in getDeviceConfigUiValues line 782 in plugin.py although I believe that is called AFTER the id selections get presented.

Karl

please do be too harsh my my spaghetti code.

[matt (support)]

At first I wasn't able to reproduce the problem, but after some experimentation I did. The issue is that somewhere in your database you have a device defined with the old/previous type ID (iPhoneBLE). If you do, then the Indigo UI gets confused and won't show the correct types even if you are just trying to create a new device (not edit the orphaned device).

So find which devices you have that use the old type, delete them, then reload the plugin and it should work with the new ID. However, this presents a problem if you have any users that might be using the old type ID. So I'd only suggest making the change in the type ID if this is an internal build no one else has used yet.

And we obviously need to make the Indigo GUI a bit more robust in this case...

ok thanks,

I only published it with this id, but wanted to change it from iPhoneBLE to BLE-connect, as it is not just for iPhones.. and yes I have 2 of these defined.

will experiment a bit.

thanks for your help

Karl

so would this work?

leave the old id one in there, name it to ... "delete me"
add a new one with the right name

leave this

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    <Device type="custom" id="iPhoneBLE">
      <Name>BLE-connect  --- delete me</Name>
   delete all lines up to
   </Device>


then add

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    <Device type="custom" id="BLE-connect">
      <Name>BLE-connect</Name>
     will all the defs here
   </Device>


Karl

[matt (support)]

I think so, but you should test it out to make sure. To instruct users to select the new one maybe have the <Name> be "BLE-connect - old, select new BLE-connect below" ?