Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

maialbe2823
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Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby maialbe2823 » Sat Feb 26, 2022 8:37 am

I noticed that there is only 4 API for devices like fan, switch, lightbulb and temperature sensor. I went into the cpp and header file and I created a class for a new thing which was a lock. I checked every possible library that could need it and added it. However; Arduino doesn't compiles as it doesn't recognize the ESP32 Dev Module anymore. Don't know why. Is there anyway to do it? Is there any other way for example if I create a custom device that instead of getting a random icon, I could add my own image icon?

ESP_Piyush
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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby ESP_Piyush » Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:29 am

Hello,

Sample code for custom devices can be found here. However, you cannot have custom icons in the phone app, since the phone app sources only support a small set of icons that you can see here. We would have liked to give an option to add own icons without having to re-compile the phone apps, but we have not started any work on that front yet. If you are looking for any specific device type or icon, do let us know.

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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby maialbe2823 » Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:17 pm

Yes, I have used that table however for example if I create a lock device it says it doesnt exist. How can I get this done through arduino ide. As I see there is only 4 classes , not all of those in that table. So, If i call the Static Lock my_lock("Lock", NULL) it gives me an error since its not one of those. I even wnet an created a class for the lock but it stills give me the same error. How can I use the lock sample then.

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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby ESP_Piyush » Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:23 pm

Hello, you can see that a custom dimmer device has been defined in this example. Have you similarly tried defining a lock, something like this?

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static Device my_device("Lock", "esp.device.lock", NULL);

maialbe2823
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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby maialbe2823 » Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:23 am

Thank you very much now I do get the image icon. One more question, how is it that the paramupdatereport function work in arduino , cuz in esp-idf sample I get it how is done but cannt seem to find the one arduino uses to updates sensors values, not the callback.

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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby rmetzner49 » Fri Mar 04, 2022 2:35 pm

How about this:

my_device.updateAndReportParam("Hours Exercising:", h1);

Note, if you are updating several parameters, you will need to DELAY between calling them, else things choke.
Be sure not to use delay(); , you want a non-blocking timer. I update 3 values and have 200ms between each call.

maialbe2823
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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby maialbe2823 » Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:27 pm

Thank you very much.

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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby ESP_Piyush » Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:06 am

Another option, if you have the param pointer is to use

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param->updateAndReport(val);

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Re: Device Create API(Device Icon Change)

Postby maialbe2823 » Mon Mar 07, 2022 5:32 pm

Thanks.

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