How to determine plugin Python 2 dependencies

Hi Jay and Matt,

I got the email stating the next version (2023.1) will not support plugins that still have Python 2 dependencies. It advised users to search for alternatives for plugins that still have such dependencies.

As a user who relies heavily on 3rd party plugins, but does not usually have any insight into their inner workings, how can I determine which plugins have such dependencies? If I update Indigo to check the damage would already be done. I know there have been warnings about this for some time but I have been at a loss as to what I could do about them. I could see no way to determine which of the many plugins with warnings actually have an incompatibility. While I normally stay up to date, I'm tempted to freeze my configuration at this point if upgrading presents an impossible challenge.

Thanks.

--Dave

Any Python2 based plugins will have a warning in your plugins list. A yellow dot, I think. ALL of those will stop working.

The wording on that warning is probably a little confusing. You need to be concerned with plugins that are Python2 based, not dependencies within the plugins themselves.

In the Plugin Store:
"The plugins below with the exclamation point badge may not be compatible with versions after Indigo 2022.2.2. Contact the developer to inquire about an update."

When looking at your Plugins in the Indigo client:
There are color indicators that show whether they are updated for Python 3. (green)

Whoa! Lots of yellow dots that would render some important hardware and software extensions useless. I guess I have my answer as to what to do. Thanks for the clarification,

BTW, it would be helpful to include the colored dots in the manage plugins list as well. It's a little awkward to find them in the menu.

It would help if you posted the list of problematic plugins. Some may have more recent alternatives.

Will do, Joe, although I have been diligent about keeping them up to date. It'll take a little while to sort through them, especially since the colored dots don't show for currently disabled plugins, some of which I use intermittently for special purposes.

It would help if you posted the list of problematic plugins. Some may have more recent alternatives.

Since you asked, Joe, here are my currently enabled plug-ins with yellow dots. Some, note with an asterisk, are used to control specific hardware devices that I would rather not lose. Others, such as Super Conditions and Switchboard are used extensively and would be a huge pain to replace.

I haven't started to look for alternatives which I intend to do before asking for more advice. Thanks.

--Dave

* Dynamic View Controller
* EPS - Device Extensions*
* EPS - Mac Commander
* EPS - Super Conditions
* Flux LED*
* Foscam Controller*
* Foscam HD Controller*
* Nanoleaf*
* Online Sensor
* Roku Network Remote*
* Samsung TV*
* shelly Direct*
* Switchboard
* UPS and Battery Monitor*

The UPS plugin was updated on GitHub, but never released to the store. You can get it here: https://github.com/bschollnick/Indigo-U ... master.zip

I don't use any of the others, so I can't really help.

Thanks Joe. That’s a good start.

I have done the coding to convert the FoscamHD and Dynamic View Controller plugins to Python 3.
I haven't yet scheduled in time to do the required testing prior to a pre-release version being made available.
However, I am aiming to have these released prior to the next major version of Indigo being made available.

The nanoleaf plugin has already been converted to Python 3 and is available as a pre-release on Github: Convert to Python 3 for Indigo 2022.1+

I don't know about the Foscam Controller; where did you get that from?

The author of some of these plugins--Colorado4Wheeler--left the Indigo community years ago.

I don't suspect his plugins will ever be updated.

I don't know about the Foscam Controller; where did you get that from?

Thanks. This was an old plugin from Github. I'm probably not using it anymore and need to disable it.

I don't see ShellyDirect in the plugin store. Where is that from, and what does it do that the currently supported Shelly plugin doesn't?

It’s my plugin.
Supports direct communication with Shelly w/o any middleware

Supports type1 devices not the new ones
It is on GitHub and indigo store and it is py3 compatible

Karl.


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It’s my plugin.
Supports direct communication with Shelly w/o any middleware

Supports type1 devices not the new ones
It is on GitHub and indigo store and it is py3 compatible

I know your Shelly plugin is up to Py3 now. But his list has "Shelly Direct", which I thought must be something else?