(python scripting) find and control all devices in a folder?

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Hi All!

Working on a python script. I have my z-wave lights organized by folders. I would like to be able to select all devices in a folder and say, turn them off.

What is the best way to find all devices in a folder?

I guess I can get the folder ID this way? indigo.devices.folders.getId("Some Folder Name")

Now do I have to loop through every device in my system to check if it's in the folder? That doesn't seem like it will be very performant. Is there no way to ask a folder what devices it has in it?

Thanks,
Darren

You didn't say what version of Indigo you're working with (which version of Python), so here's a Python 3 example:

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for dev in indigo.devices.iter():
    if dev.folderId == 251697344:
        indigo.device.turnOff(dev.id)


There's no way to ask a folder which objects are in it, but iterating through all the objects doesn't take long (the above script ran in 0.2 seconds on an Intel MBP for about 150 devices). There is no filter for folder ID [ indigo.devices.iter(filter="") ], but that would just be moving the iteration from your script to the server.

You could run a script to "watch" your Indigo setup and maintain a dictionary of folders and their contents (to save it to a variable, you'd need to convert it to JSON). But honestly, performance shouldn't be an issue with the above.

For completeness, here's one way to create a JSON payload and save it to an Indigo variable.

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import json

object_dict = {
    'devices': indigo.devices,
    'variables': indigo.variables,
    'triggers': indigo.triggers,
    'schedules': indigo.schedules,
    'actionGroups': indigo.actionGroups,
    'controlPages': indigo.controlPages
    }
folder_dict = {key: [] for key in object_dict}   # makes a dict like {'devices': [], variables: [], ...}

for key, value in object_dict.items():           # i.e., key = 'devices', value = indigo.devices
    for item in value.iter():                    # i.e., for dev in indigo.devices.iter()
        folder_dict[key].append(item.id)         # i.e., folder_dict['devices'].append(dev.id)
       
my_json = json.dumps(folder_dict)                # convert the dict to json
indigo.variable.updateValue(123456789, my_json)  # variable values are always strings, so must be stored as json


Thanks for your thoughts and help @DaveL17. I ended up going with the simple iteration you suggested. My z-wave network is much slower than the iteration logic anyway . I was able to clean up and future proof a few action groups I have with this help. Cheers!

Glad you were able to land on something useful.

Cheers.