[SOLVED]"Timer is active" state not correct on indigo touch

I have a bunch of battery operated devices whose up-status is monitored using timers that are reset every time a heartbeat or status update is received. In order to reduce control page clutter, I am using the "timer is active" option to update a bicolor image on a control page. Makes for an easy "is it working" at a glance.

I don't think the actual iPhone control page heuristics are working. I have two instances now where the timer is stopped - battery died - and yet the iPhone's control page bicolor image remains green. I just checked it with the control page browser preview, and the image is properly red, so the preview and CP are discrepant. Thoughts?

[matt (support)]

How specifically do you have all of the images named, and what are all (specific) variable values possible?

The images are RG-BiColor-16.PNG and RG-BiColor-16+true.PNG. The variable values are from the timer status itself, "active" or "inactive".

[matt (support)]

If the variable values are active and inactive, then you need images named the following:

RG-BiColor-16+.PNG
RG-BiColor-16+active.PNG
RG-BiColor-16+inactive.PNG

The first image is just a placeholder that will be used if the variable value doesn't match the other two. It is required though, because the + tells Indigo to use the more advanced image file look-up heuristics.

Got it. That worked -- thanks! Curious as to why it would be correct on the web server page but not IndigoTouch?

[matt (support)]

Indigo Touch users a custom renderer (not HTML/CSS/JS based) so it works a bit differently. The fact that they are inconsistent is just because the code is unintentionally different in Indigo Touch in this case. In the future they will likely have more identical behavior, but having the files named as I listed above is the correct solution that should work going forward...

Thanks for the excellent explanation!