Notification of new device creation

[berkinet]

Is there a call Indigo can make to a plugin to inform the plugin of the creation of a new device?

[nsheldon]

It appears that the "deviceCreated" method is called, and can be overridden by your plugin, whenever a device that was owned by your plugin is created. The method is described here.

[jay (support)]

Note that in Indigo 6 deviceCreated() is called before your config dialog has a chance to run. We're a bit behind in the documentation, but you can use the new dev.configured property inside the deviceUpdated() method to see if your config dialog has run on the device at least one time.

The main place we recommend looking for devices is in deviceStartComm - though obviously that doesn't necessarily serve all purposes.

[berkinet]

Thanks... for now deviceCreated and the related calls meets my need. The issue here is that the plugin maintains a list of devices that should be polled at regular intervals. For simplicity I keep the device info in an internal dict. But, I need to update that dict if a device is added/changed or deleted. So, all I was looking for was notification that a change had been made - which, thanks to nsheldon for telling me and Jay and Matt for creating, I now have.

[jay (support)]

You should manage that in deviceStartComm() and deviceStopComm() since you don't want to poll devices that aren't enabled...

[berkinet]

Yup, I could do that. But, since I only poll the thermostats energy n minutes its pretty easy to just use runConcurrentThread and then loop over the devices once each time the method loops.

[jay (support)]

You're missing the point - if the user disables communication to the thermostat, they expect that it won't be communicated with.

You can do exactly what you're talking about doing - you just manage the contents of the device list from deviceStartComm() and deviceStopComm(). In deviceStartComm, you add it to the list of devices to poll, in deviceStopComm you remove it from the list. That way, the user can disable the thermostat if they need to power it down, move it, etc., and they won't get a stream of communication errors when you try to poll a device that isn't there.

[berkinet]

Really, I think I get it. But, since I added support for deviceUpdated. I get notified when communications are enabled and disabled as well as for device config changes.

[jay (support)]

OK - just trying to help make it less complex...