Quick question: I want to pass a string from my device to a smartapp when the device throws an event. How?
Long story; I’m so close to having my x10 integration working. However, one thing I need to do is pass the x10 module (such as A15) and command for the device (such as ON) to a smartapp I’m writing. I need something like the following event:
I think I’m limited to the built-in events, because when I try to throw a custom event, it just gets ignored in the smartapp, even though i’m subsubscribing to the matching event name. So, if I have to use built-in events, then something like the following could work:
I’m pseudo-coding here because I’ve been trying every seemingly possible way to get it to work for the past 4 or 5 hours and can’t. I know there’s got to be some magic to making this happen (custom events that I don’t understand, attributes I can read from the device, SOMETHING)…
@johnwest80 I am not 100% sure that I can help, but I have been trying to deal with a similar problem using an Arduino Thing Shield, multiple custom Device Types, and a SmartApp to tie everything together. Feel free to look at my code at https://gist.github.com/ogiewon. It may give you some tips for the one-to-many, many-to-one mappings…
I have numerous X10 modules still and would love to hear more about your approach to integrating X10 with SmartThings.
For those wondering, you can create custom events. The problem was that duplicate event values don’t get sent, so I thought it wasn’t working. In other words, this works…
However, if you send the event multiple times with the same value, it won’t get sent to the smart app. Only changes in value get sent. I thought maybe filterEvents: false would fix this, but it doesn’t seem to. In order to work around this, I am appending the time in milliseconds to each event that’s sent. My smart app just removes it on its end.