[ANSWERED]New User -How Speak Brightness of an Insteon Bulb?

Hi All - I just purchased an insteon enabled LED bulb to play with. Control is very straight forward. I'm stuck trying to figure out how to set the 'Edit Actions' Screen to have it speak the 'brightness level'.

The desired result is a button that raises the brightness 20%, another that reduces it 20% and a display that shows the actual brightness level (all working) and that then speaks the current brightness level (not working)

The brightness level shows up fine, and the Speak option works fine, I just can't figure out how to place device status information into the 'Speak' text box.

Any suggestions or samples appreciated!

-russg

Welcome.

The best way in my opinion is to use an embedded Python script. Try this:

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speakValue = str(indigo.devices[123].brightness)
indigo.server.speak("The brightness is set to" + speakValue)

Where '123' is the device ID number.

If you need more help with this, please feel free to ask.

A little bit fancier.

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speakName = str(indigo.devices[123].name)
speakValue = str(indigo.devices[123].brightness)
indigo.server.speak("The %s brightness is set to %s" % (speakName, speakValue))

Thank you!
That is just too cool. Thank you for the examples.

First time I've seen a '%' used as a delimiter (in the multi-variable substitute), which makes it a good time to order my first python book. Time to learn a new syntax

My next project is a pretty extensive use of the OWServer Plugin (EDS 1-Wire Server ), so you will probably see me post again shortly.

-russg

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that you might be able to use the OWServer plugin, too. Let me know if you have any questions or see any gremlins.

Dave