Forcing a "Send Status Request"

I have several I/O Linc devices (3 to be exact) that I'm controlling: two garage doors and a gate.

In all three cases, I have magnetic switches that sense whether the device is open or closed. Most of the times these update ok, but sometimes, the state of the Garage Door is closed in Indigo when the garage door is really open. This plays havoc with my scripts if the binary input doesn't match the true state.

What I would like to do in my Python script is BEFORE determining the binary input state is to force a refresh of the state. I can do this in the UI easily by clicking "Send Status Request" but cannot figure out how to do this in Python. Any ideas?

[matt (support)]

Hi Boisy,

You can use the following:

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indigo.device.statusRequest(dev)

You will then want to have the script sleep for a few seconds to give the reply time to come in. You can also pass in suppressLogging=True if you don't want Indigo to log the status request being sent.

Thanks Matt. This is working great!

I use this code to send a status request

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indigo.device.statusRequest(117884308)
suppressLogging=False


But the status request does appear in the log. What am I doing wrong?

[matt (support)]

suppressLogging goes into the argument list:

indigo.device.statusRequest(dev_id, suppressLogging=False)

I use this code to send a status request

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indigo.device.statusRequest(117884308)
suppressLogging=False


But the status request does appear in the log. What am I doing wrong?

In addition to Matt's reply above, if you don't want to see the log entry, suppressLogging should be set to True, not False.

Peter

I have tried with False and True.

This code works for me:

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# A sleep interval is required to allow time to process the request.
from time import sleep

# The device must support status request, battery-powered devices will not respond unless awake.
indigo.device.statusRequest(dev_id, suppressLogging=False)
sleep(0.5)

Many devices don't support status requests and some seem to only support it for certain features (for example, my Fibaro Multisensor responds for the master device--the motion sensor--but not the slave devices.) You might also try adjusting the sleep interval as some devices likely take longer to respond than others.

When i use this code, the sent command appears in the log. I can't se any different between supressLogging=True and supressLogging=False

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indigo.device.statusRequest(806959927,suppressLogging=True)


13. sep. 2016, 20.51.13
Z-Wave sent "Gang kjeller - Lys tak" status request
Z-Wave sent "Gang kjeller - Lys tak" energy status request
Z-Wave sent "Gang kjeller - Lys tak I2" status request
Z-Wave sent "Gang kjeller - Lys tak I3" status request
Z-Wave received "Gang kjeller - Lys tak I2" status update is off
Z-Wave received "Gang kjeller - Lys tak I3" status update is off

I have used suppress in the code.

[matt (support)]

Sorry, but the suppressLogging option isn't currently working for the Z-Wave interface. It works for INSTEON and X10, but not Z-Wave or any 3rd party plugins. We have on our ToDo list to improve it...