Sonos Plugin Setup

[matt (support)]

Jay/Matt - is there anything I can do to expose the device name? I'm not sure it is possible, but please advise.

Yes. It is a bit hackish, but try the the following. First in your Actions.xml <ConfigUI> create a hidden <Field> to hold a description text value:

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         <Field id="description" type="textfield" hidden="true">
            <Label>runtime calculated</Label>
         </Field>

Next, in your plugin's validateActionConfigUi method have it calculate the UI description you want displayed and stuff that into the "description" value:

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   def validateActionConfigUi(self, valuesDict, typeId, devId):
      errorsDict = indigo.Dict()

      # Calculate a good UI description based on all of the action values.
      valuesDict[u"description"] = u"some runtime calculated description; you can lookup the device name and use it here"

      if len(errorsDict) > 0:
         return (False, valuesDict, errorsDict)
      return (True, valuesDict)

Note that this won't automatically add good descriptions for all the actions already in someone's database, but as they open and save out of the action dialogs the descriptions should be filled in and then they are cached off and saved in the database.

I don't understand this precisely but I get the idea and can see how such modifications could be quite helpful. Having to open and save out of the action dialogs is a small price to pay for the benefits.

I gave this a shot and it did not work. In the Action Settings editor, when I click "Save", I get the error: "Error validating fields. Hover of the red field labels above to see the error reason." There is nothing in to hover over as I don't have any other fields in the ConfigUi for the action. There are no errors in the Event Log. Also -- for actions that require no additional Action Settings, the user must Edit a blank window and hit save for this "hack" to work. Unfortunately not ideal in all circumstances.

Jay/Matt - is there anything I can do to expose the device name? I'm not sure it is possible, but please advise.

Yes. It is a bit hackish, but try the the following. First in your Actions.xml <ConfigUI> create a hidden <Field> to hold a description text value:

Code: Select all

         <Field id="description" type="textfield" hidden="true">
            <Label>runtime calculated</Label>
         </Field>

Next, in your plugin's validateActionConfigUi method have it calculate the UI description you want displayed and stuff that into the "description" value:

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   def validateActionConfigUi(self, valuesDict, typeId, devId):
      errorsDict = indigo.Dict()

      # Calculate a good UI description based on all of the action values.
      valuesDict[u"description"] = u"some runtime calculated description; you can lookup the device name and use it here"

      if len(errorsDict) > 0:
         return (False, valuesDict, errorsDict)
      return (True, valuesDict)

Note that this won't automatically add good descriptions for all the actions already in someone's database, but as they open and save out of the action dialogs the descriptions should be filled in and then they are cached off and saved in the database.

I just added a second Sonos Play3 and created a stereo pair. Prior to this my setup was working with the single Sonos Play3. Now that I've got the pair, using the same name, I'm getting this error:

Sep 17, 2016, 9:38:10 PM
Action Group Ocean On Sonos
Sonos Error Error in plugin execution ExecuteAction:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "plugin.py", line 153, in actionZP_LIST
File "/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 6/Plugins/Sonos.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server Plugin/Sonos.py", line 1373, in actionDirect
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'CoordinatorIP' referenced before assignment

Not sure what I'm doing wrong!