supportsOnState property

A virtual relay appears to be missing the property: supportsOnState

So checking if device.supportsOnState throws an error.

[jay (support)]

I'll look into it, thanks.

[jay (support)]

Dimmers and relay devices don't have the supportsOnState property because they always support an on state. Sensor devices may or may not, so that's where supportsOnState is used.

OK but I guess that isn't so helpful if you are trying to identify device types that do from that property.

Thanks for the explanation.

I’m with Jon on this.


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[jay (support)]

So, you guys are trying to build a list of all devices that support ON states, correct? It would require a bit of extra logic to test first to see if the device instance is an indigo.RelayDevice (dimmers are a subclass of Relay so isinstance(dev, indigo.RelayDevice) would work on both), and if not then look at the supportsOnState property (catching the exception where it doesn't have the property). So it is a bit more work.

I'll add an API feature request to add a filter for the device iterator.

[matt (support)]

I think you can do this now. In Indigo 7.4 I added the SupportsOnState property to relays and dimmers (and set it to always be True), so you can do the following to get all devices that are relays, dimmers, or sensors that support on/off states:

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for dev in indigo.devices.iter("props.SupportsOnState"):
   indigo.server.log(dev.name)

So basically the property exists at the dict level for everything that supports on/off states, but relays and dimmers do not have an instance level attribute (yet) which makes dev.supportsOnState fail on them. I should probably add the instance level attribute to relay / dimmers...

[jay (support)]

How's THAT for turnaround! I believe I asked Matt for this last year some time (I thought it sounded familiar, but my memory isn't what it used to be).

I think you can do this now.

I should probably add the instance level attribute to relay / dimmers...

How's THAT for turnaround!

I don't see the instance level attribute in 7.5....

[matt (support)]

I think Jay was talking about the property dict level support I added in 7.4.1 (which can be accessed with the iterator filter in the example above). A new dev.supportsOnState attribute will have to wait for the next release.

I know full well what he was on about!

I’m suggesting you should get working a bit quicker.


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[jay (support)]

I know full well what he was on about!

I’m suggesting you should get working a bit quicker.

I have a suggestion for you, but not in polite company...

Hey, it was Matt I was insinuating!


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[matt (support)]

I think this is where we should just blame everything on durosity.

[jay (support)]

I think this is where we should just blame everything on durosity.

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