DeviceType TCP Connection

[halkeye (Gavin Mogan)]

Trying to hook up my sharp aquos TV to smart things. It has a TCP/IP based API. I have created a new device type, setup a poll() function (which I can tell gets called). I fire off a a HubAction, and nothing happens.

new physicalgraph.device.HubAction("${settings.username}\r${settings.password}\rPOWR?   \r", physicalgraph.device.Protocol.LAN)

I have another one on() which using the simulator to actually trigger the command, I can see the api is fired and the TV turns on.

Nothing I do seems to trigger the parse(description?) method.

does HubAction take a callback? Is there something that needs to be done to get parse() to be fired?

https://github.com/halkeye/sharp.aquos.devicetype.groovy/blob/master/sharp.aquos.devicetype.groovy is what I have so far.

[geko]

Raw TCP sockets are not officially supported by ST. There’s no way to read a reply. Please see this discussion:

Raw TCP Socket Communications with sendHubCommand()

So, I’ve proven to myself that one can send raw TCP data with sendHubCommand(). Whatever data I pass to sendHubCommand() is delivered unmodified, which is as raw as it get. This is how my app talks to Mochad X10 gateway in this demo: The question now is how to receive anything back. Currently, the hub sends back empty response, which is enough to confirm that data was sent successfully, but it would be much more useful if I could get data back from the socket. I know that sendHubCommand() takes an undocumented options argument, so the question is if there’s a magic option that can make the hub send reply back to the app?