Email variable value

[mintzps]

Hi,

I am trying to use your plug-in to email the value of a variable.
The action is written as : Address is %%v:Address%

The email comes, but instead of a value, I get %%v:Address%%

What am I doing wrong?

[FlyingDiver]

Can you show me a screen grab of that action dialog? What field are you putting that in?

[mintzps]

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[FlyingDiver]

I believe it has to be the variableID for device substitution, not the variable name. That's why the example is all numbers.

[mintzps]

What do you mean by variableIID? How is that different from the variable name? How do I find the variableID?

[FlyingDiver]

What do you mean by variableIID? How is that different from the variable name? How do I find the variableID?

It's the right column of the Variable list. You can get a copy of the number by right clicking on the variable in the list.

[jay (support)]

Using names is a bad idea because the variable name can change over time which would break your substitution (or any scripts which use the name, etc). All items in Indigo have a unique ID that never changes over the lifetime of the object.

[hamw]

I used the %%v:1366898942%% convention in a new trigger--> send Twilio SMS, and it did not properly substitute in my variable, just showing exactly %%v:1366898942%% . Any ideas? New mac mini with 15.6.1 and Indigo 2024.2

Thanks!

[FlyingDiver]

I used the %%v:1366898942%% convention in a new trigger--> send Twilio SMS, and it did not properly substitute in my variable, just showing exactly %%v:1366898942%% . Any ideas? New mac mini with 15.6.1 and Indigo 2024.2

It'sa possible that plugin doesn't support variable substitution. I would have to check. Does the dialog box say it does?

[FlyingDiver]

The plugin does support substitution, so something else is going on.

Post a screen shot of the action dialog.

[hamw]

Thanks for the quick reply; family plans prevented my getting back. I think I may have figured out the issue.... I am using a variable change to trigger Twilio to send the contents of the variable, in this case a triggered text telling me that I have finished adding water to the pool, and is read by Twilio as %%v:<VARIABLE ID>%% format. That works perfectly. I believe what I have done is nest another instance of %%v:<VARIABLE ID>%% inside the variable text that is referenced above. It may be that Indigo does not see the nested %%v:<VARIABLE ID>%%.

Here are some screenshots, and the output.

Once pool fill is completed, this string is pasted into a variable that fires and Twilio sends a message. Note that I nested another var ID inside the text to be picked out by Twilio.

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The Twilio trigger executes when a variable changes.

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Twilio reads the var substitution and sends message.

0901 Trigger Send Text.png (108.34 KiB) Viewed 297 times

Here is the second variable I am trying to nest within the first.

0901 Twilio Var Substitution.png (81.53 KiB) Viewed 297 times

I am guessing this can't be done, and the easy solution is to create another SMS to send the total gallons of water used as %%v:<VARIABLE ID>%%.

[FlyingDiver]

Yeah, unless the action that's actually setting the variable is doing the substitution, that won't work. I've never tested that.

[hamw]

Much appreciated. Good to know. Problem solved with just addressing Twilio directly.