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If that's the case, I'm not sure how his script above is working since the access to the state will return a string. The behavior should be that it always executes the script unless th string value is None...

Sorry to be keeping this going, but the script was working previously and even works with Jay's code suggestion below (== False). I had added the debug logging as suggested by Matt and the only time it fails (doesn't return) is when the plugin returns false (lower case) as in the log: Alert state is false. It seems to work with True and true.

achterberg wrote:

Sorry to be keeping this going, but the script was working previously and even works with Jay's code suggestion below (== False). I had added the debug logging as suggested by Matt and the only time it fails (doesn't return) is when the plugin returns false (lower case) as in the log: Alert state is false. It seems to work with True and true.

This actually might be an implementation thing in the (my) code.

Devices.xml:

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         <State
            id = "alertStatus">
            <ValueType>String</ValueType>
            <TriggerLabel>Alert Status</TriggerLabel>
            <ControlPageLabel>Alert Status</ControlPageLabel>
         </State>


plugin.py

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      if not parsed_simplejson['alerts']:
         dev.updateStateOnServer("alertStatus", value = False)
      else:
         dev.updateStateOnServer("alertStatus", value = True)


I'm not sure how Python (or Indigo) is handling this situation behind the scenes. Indigo wants to get a string back from the plugin, but I'm sending a boolean. In my install (development environment and production environment) I get a state of 'false' when there are no alerts.

I will set the values to be strings like Indigo would expect. I'm hesitant to change the device valueType to boolean until it's time to roll out version 1.0.

Dave

I get both False and false returned at different times in seemingly no particular order, for what it's worth. But this isn't an issue for me as I explained before, this was a learning exercise. So whatever your timeframe is OK by me.


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achterberg wrote:

I get both False and false returned at different times in seemingly no particular order, for what it's worth. But this isn't an issue for me as I explained before, this was a learning exercise. So whatever your timeframe is OK by me.

Thanks. Still good for me to make the code proper.
Dave