Referencing values in Actions?

[ctgreybeard]

I have just started playing with the I5 plugins. What I have enabled is Growl and NOAA Weather. I've set up a trigger for when the NOAA station here goes below 32 degrees F which does a Growl Notify. I would like to have the reported temperature in the Growl message which I understand I can do using the %%v:variableIndex%% substitution. But nothing that I've tried has met with success. How do I properly insert what I want and, for future reference, where can I find that information for other plugins?

This should be fun!!

TIA,
Bill W

[matt (support)]

Hi Bill,

Take a look at the Notification Action section of the Growl plugin documentation:

http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/wik ... ns:growl_1

And also check out this page:

http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/wik ... bstitution

You can get the variable ID by right (or CNTRL) clicking on the variable name in Indigo's Variable Window and choosing Copy ID from the popup context menu.

[ctgreybeard]

Thanks.

It doesn't look like the NOAA plugin supports variable substitution, I can't get an ID for any of the variables in the plugin. Maybe I'll have a go at adding the capability.

Bill

[matt (support)]

The NOAA plugin actually stores the weather information into Device states, not Indigo Variable values. I don't believe there is currently a mechanism for doing device state substitution, it only works with Indigo variable values.

You could, however, create a Trigger for whenever the NOAA Device State changes, then you can use the Action Collection plugin which has an action to copy a Device State into an Indigo Variable value. And finally, you could use the growl variable substitution. A bit of an indirect approach, but I think it would work.

[ctgreybeard]

Cool! As you suggest it may be rather indirect but I think it should work. I'll play with it.

Thanks!

Bill W