Advancement made on working with KeypadLincs

On the advice from Jay into looking into attachments to create what I would call "functions" in a programming language, I uncovered part of the puzzle in working KPLs (KeypadLincs). I have created code as an attachment with allows you to call it as such:

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Keypad_Controller(KeypadName, ButtonLetter, Scene, NewState)

So you might call it like this below to tell the kitchen keypad to light up button "B" and turn on the PowerLinc group called "Dinner Lights".

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Keypad_Controller("Kitchen Keypad", "B", "Dinner Lights", TRUE)

This works well, put in a "push" mode - it makes an event happen from code. Great for AppleScript where you want to simulate someone pushing a button on a keypad. But there's a problem - I need to also trap when someone presses the real button. I need to "poll" they KPL.

Now I could just write a bunch of Triggers that trap for button presses and go from there, but I am trying to do this in automated way so that the Indigo user doesn't have a lot to fuss with. And it occurs to me this can be done with the command:

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on receive insteon event instnStatusChanged for address switchAddress

What I am trying to do is have an Attachment script that say 'I see someone pushed a button "B" on "Kitchen Keypad"'. I think from there I can create some code that will link of of this together.

Has anyone solved this other side of the problem - the poll via an Attachment?

I think this new post just gave me my answer - Thanks (again) Jay!
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