Basic question on FWP

[DaveL17]

Still no work-e I'm sure it is me..... just not sure what to do next.

Hi Norm - two things to check.

(1) when renaming files, it's often necessary to stop the Indigo server and restart the application to clear the image cache.
(2) you may also need to clear the cache for your browser as well.

Dave

[norcoscia]

Yes, I tried all that stuff - that is when this showed up unexpectedly

[norcoscia]

Dilog boxes like this make me shake my head - why does it not list the device - guess it could be worse - hope the next box does not say - "error- problem detected. Then it could have a button for more help that would say "something is wrong" when you click it.... sigh

[DaveL17]

Yes, I tried all that stuff - that is when this showed up unexpectedly

Hmmm. Clearing the image cache should work.

I don't know anything about Insteon--but nothing with the plugin or the control page images should have anything to do with the message you posted.

[norcoscia]

I know - it just surprised me - I expect to see that when I replace something - not 3 months after on a re-start of the sever.

[jay (support)]

Dilog boxes like this make me shake my head - why does it not list the device - guess it could be worse - hope the next box does not say - "error- problem detected. Then it could have a button for more help that would say "something is wrong" when you click it.... sigh

This dialog has nothing to do with your control page issue.

That dialog probably tries to communicate too much information. In reality, you should just do the sync when you see it. It's possible that it might take a minute or so, and that during that time anything automatic may be delayed, but more likely it'll happen quickly enough that you won't even notice. Any errors that occur during the sync process will show in the Event Log while the sync is running.

Also note: you should rarely see this dialog - it should only happen when you replace an Insteon device (or the PowerLinc). If you didn't replace a device, but you see this dialog, then that may indicate that a device is failing. If that's the case, then when the sync runs you'll likely see errors. Let us know the specific errors you see and we can help work it out from there.

[norcoscia]

Jay - I know that dialog does not have anything to do with the graphics issues I'm having - I know fixing the refresh is on the upgrade list but to be honest messing with (changing) graphic files is pretty much a pain and it does not have to be - I was also getting annoyed with the fact that the dialog box should identify the device that it thinks was replaced (if it is going to surface) right now it makes it seems like Indigo does not know what was replaced - which I doubt - if indigo does know -- why not provide that information to the user as part of the message?

I did replace a device weeks ago and also another device weeks before that. If the box was going to show up that is when I should have seen it - not weeks or months after I made the change - I guess the server re-start somehow caused Indigo to notice something was replaced. I have no way to know....

Sorry for complaining - I have just wasted so much time with indigo graphic files not showing up - especially when I first started using indigo - I was trying to find out what would look the best and kept changing the graphic - I wasted a lot of time until I discovered it was just a shortcoming of Indigo.

I have given up on it for now - maybe tomorrow if my back is not hurting I will see if I can get the new Dark Sky icons to display. Sigh

[WouterK]

Hi,

The underscore in the icons filename is working

Regards,

Wouter

[DaveL17]

Hi Wouter - thanks for letting me know.

Dave

[Monstergerm]

I also notices (yesterday in the device) that icon 3 was listed as partly-cloudy-night and I can not figure out why it was listing the night icon, or, for that matter, why any night icon would show up on the list of daily icons - am I missing something? Or should I wait until it is out of beta testing?

To those of you who notice night icons showing up during daytime hours, this is an intended feature from Dark Sky, but they might change it.

Here is their explanation:

How do you determine the value for the icon property on daily data points?
Our system is presently very simple: it finds the “worst” weather condition that will happen during the day (4AM to 4AM), and uses the icon for it. The only case where a daily icon will show a *-night value is partly-cloudy-night, and this is done to match the daily summary text. We already have intentions to change this behavior, because it is confusing.
In the meantime, you can assume that if partly-cloudy-night is the worst weather condition that was found, that it was clear during the day. So you can just treat partly-cloudy-night as an alias for clear-day.

[DaveL17]

To those of you who notice night icons showing up during daytime hours, this is an intended feature from Dark Sky, but they might change it.

Here is their explanation:

How do you determine the value for the icon property on daily data points?
Our system is presently very simple: it finds the “worst” weather condition that will happen during the day (4AM to 4AM), and uses the icon for it. The only case where a daily icon will show a *-night value is partly-cloudy-night, and this is done to match the daily summary text. We already have intentions to change this behavior, because it is confusing.
In the meantime, you can assume that if partly-cloudy-night is the worst weather condition that was found, that it was clear during the day. So you can just treat partly-cloudy-night as an alias for clear-day.

This is very helpful information--thank you for sharing it with the group. I'll add it to the plugin's FAQ as well.

Dave

[Monstergerm]

How to display weather alerts on control pages?

The plugin provides Alert Description, Alert Title and Alert URI. I can easily add a text field to a control page to display the alert title. I then want to be able to click on the title and be directed to the alerts.weather.gov URL that displays the details on the weather alert.

However, contrary to Wunderground, this URL always changes, so I cannot add a static URL on my control page via the Client Action: Goto external URL function.

Does anyone have an idea how to accomplish this?

[RogueProeliator]

However, contrary to Wunderground, this URL always changes, so I cannot add a static URL on my control page via the Client Action: Goto external URL function.

You might be able to use the Dynamic Refreshing URL scheme to redirect?
viewtopic.php?f=134&t=18729&hilit=dynamic+url

That is designed to redirect refreshing URLs, but if you pointed your Go to External URL to the URL as in the plugin, it should redirect the browser just fine I believe. Jay or someone may have tried this and can chime in.

Adam

[DaveL17]

How to display weather alerts on control pages?

I use the Matplotlib Plugin to do this--specifically the Multiline Text Device. There are also a couple of threads on other ways to display long strings on control pages including this one and this one. Here is an example using the Matplotlib Plugin:

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