Action Group Callback Help

What information is sent back to the callback method ? The documentation can use some expaning and I've seen lots of different ways of implementing actions.

What I want to do is very basic:

1) Choose a Device
2) Choose a command

In plugin.py :

1) Identify the deviceId
2) Know what command was chosen

I know this involves the Actions.xml and the plugin.py. The documentation says that the device list is done by indigo. So if I use ConfigUI in Actions.xml to define a dropdown of commands (let's use MUTE as an example) how do I read that in plugin.py? For this use case, let's say my callback method id="sendCommand"

Honestly, probably easier for you to just read the source code of almost any plugin that supports actions.

Basically, the valuesDict passed to the method named in the callback specified in the Actions.xml will have entries for any parameters specified in the action. The ID of the device is passed as one of the parameters.

ok I dug around a little and figured it out. Here's what I was looking for , thanks.

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def sendCommand(self, pluginAction, device, callerWaitingForResult):
      self.logger.debug(f"When creating the Action, here's the device {device.name}")      
      match pluginAction.props["commandCode"]:
         case 'mute':
            success = self._mute(device)

         case "volume_up":
            success = self._volumeUp(device)

         case "volume_down":
            success = self._volumeDown(device)

      return


The documentation can use some expaning and I've seen lots of different ways of implementing actions.

Thanks for the feedback; I'll take a look at what's there and see if I can add some more detail.