SmartThings

buzzkc

I’ve made a little more progress on this, but nothing to display the device info yet. I found the node-smarthings library uses promises to return results, which I’ve not worked with specifically, so been struggling with tying the device information to the device capability status results. I think I’ve finally worked passed it, but still have some testing to do.

I’ve been trying to pass the device object from the first call to the call back function for the capability status, but not figured out how to do that. All of the status results were tied to the last device processed from the device callback. I did finally move the looping of devices to where only one device was sent to the socket notification that calls the capability status and seems to be working that way.

sdetweil

@buzzkc so, with promises, you have a ‘then’, with a ‘resolve’ and an ‘error’ callback, and the resolve and reject methods of the promise can provide data to the resolve and error routines…

just a reminder, the return new Promise() returns IMMEDIATELY… the function inside the promise is called async sometime (milliseconds) later

   function_name: function(parm1_in, parm2_in) {
     return new Promise( function (resolve,reject){
             if( all_good) {
                 resolve(data_item)
             }
            else {
                reject(error_data) 
            }
     }
     )

then the method CALLING this function

    function_name(parm1, parm2).then( 
             resolve_func(data_item){ },
             error_func(error_data){}
    )

a working example , using the arrow function (parm) => {
the arrow function insures that the data context of the outside caller is maintained,
where as function(parm) { does not (u had to use the ‘self =this’ thing

let promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
 if(!setTimeout(() => resolve("done!"), 1000)){
     reject("settimeout_failed")
 }
});

// resolve runs the first function in .then, reject runs the second function
promise.then(     // this will block until the function inside the promise call resolve or reject
  result => alert(result), // shows "done!" after 1 second
  error => alert(error) // doesn't run .. this will never occurr as settimeout never fails. 
);

buzzkc

Thanks Sam, That does help explain things. The grandkids are visiting, so will be a day or so before I get back to this, unless I just can’t sleep tonight. ;-)

sdetweil

@buzzkc no problem… i’ll be around

also, the function in the promise can also be arrow

return new Promise(  (resolve,reject) =>{
            if( all_good) {
                 resolve(data_item)
             }
            else {
                reject(error_data) 
            }
         })

sdetweil

and you can nest calls to functions that return Promises.

   call_function_a(parm1, parm2).then( resolve_function(resolve_parm){ 
                 ... processing
                  call function_b(resolve_parm).then(resolve_function(some_otherdata){
                  ....     processing
                  })
   })

the 1st call_function_a routine will return a Promise object immediately
and when the function inside the promise resolves, then ‘.then (resolve’ function will be called.

the ‘.then’ waits

you can also split it up and wait later

  var p =   call_function_a(parm1, parm2)
     processing
     processing
  Promise(p).then (... etc)

i have a piece of code that loads a list of images from multiple difference sources, and knowing these take a ‘long time’ I wrapped them in promises… and start multiple at the same time…

now I have a list (array) of promises… but need to wait for all of them to complete (to have the complete list of images)

Promise.all(list).then(() => { sort full list of images, note that resolve() can't send back the list as its not complete }

you can also wait for one

Promise.race(list).then( ... etc)

buzzkc

Still working on getting things to refresh, but here is a teaser…
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Let me know if the pic isn’t showing or disappears, using google photos

sdetweil

@buzzkc looks good

buzzkc

I’ll start a new thread for this, but if anyone wants to try it out or PR it, keep in mind, it’s my first module. ;-)
https://github.com/buzzkc/MMM-Smartthings

Currently I’m only supporting a subset of device capabilities. I can only run one instance of the module also since everything is returned to a global array. More than one instance all the devices from each module instances get put into the array and the full list of devices displays on all instances rather than what was specified for that instance.

For multiple capabilities in the list, the display is sorted by device name, then by capability alphabetically.

It also displays devices for all locations, I’ll see if I can make this selective in the future, but fits my needs as it is.

cowboysdude

Just stopping in and I wanted to say Thank you guys for working on this! I am still hammered as all get out with work and crawl home most nights… I’m running 3 months behind right now. But I wanted to check in and wow… this is amazing!! Thank you guys so much!

buzzkc

Well, looks like it’s duplicating some of the items in the array. I’ll get a patch uploaded for it soon.

Edit: Found this was due to having more than one browser open, each instance was updating the global array. Working on a fix.