Limiting the commands for a device?

[Richard F]

I have been using pytomation now for a few weeks to control insteon devices, and it works great!  I just set up my first schedules and figured out how to use a generic device as a button to toggle several devices together today, and it works great.

Is there a way to restrict the actions that are controllable for a device?  So for something like the b_bedtime below, I would rather have the ability to only turn it on and get rid of all of the extraneous buttons in the Phone/Web UI:

# Define button for bedtime light presets
b_bedtime = Generic(name='Bed Time')

# Lights
l_entry = Light(address='EF.CD.AB',
                devices=(insteon,b_bedtime),
                name="Entry Light",
                mapped={
                        Attribute.COMMAND: (Command.ON),
                        Attribute.MAPPED:  (Command.LEVEL, 1),
                        Attribute.SOURCE:  b_bedtime,
                       }
               )

l_bath = Light(address='AB.CD.EF',
               devices=(insteon,b_bedtime),
               name="Bathroom Light",
               mapped={
                        Attribute.COMMAND: (Command.ON),
                        Attribute.MAPPED:  (Command.LEVEL, 1),
                        Attribute.SOURCE:  b_bedtime,
                      }
              )

[George Farris]

Unfortunately at this point I think you would have to modify the web UI. David wrote the Web stuff, he might have a better answer for you. I haven't worked on Pytomation for a while but I generally have much more time around Christmas and have been thinking of getting back in and doing a bit of tinkering. I want to add ESP8266 support.

Cheers

George

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[Jason Sharpee]

I believe you might be able to monkey patch the devices states array. 

If you are talking about the web UI I created with the simple list of devices and buttons

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[Richard F]

Hi George, 

I just poked around a bit and after a bit of trial and error created a new device type that does not have those STATEs or COMMANDs which worked nicely. Before that I tried overloading the objects like:

b_bedtime = Generic(name='Bed Time', STATES=[State.ON, State.OFF])

But that did not work...  I don't know much about python, especially object oriented python :).

What are you going to do with the Arduino?  I'm thinking about a few sensors (like a vibration one to monitor my washing machine and dryer).  I also just plugged a small 1wire bus into the same computer for playing with.

Richard

[George Farris]

Hi Richard,

Maybe you can call this device something different and we can add it to the GIT repo. Send me the changes and I look.

The ESP8266 addition is for exactly what you want to do. Single device addressed by IP address and using one or more I/O points I expect. I haven't really thought about it to much yet.

I think we can take the sparkio interface and start there, not sure haven't looked yet. Maybe Jason has an idea, I think he wrote that module.

Cheers

George

[Richard F]

Hi George,

Yes, I will do it this weekend.  I have made two additional types, one for on/off buttons and one for insteon appliance modules.

Richard

[David]

I know this is old, but now that I see this (sorry, been busy) I figured I'd mention that I added the ability to limit commands on a device a long time ago. See my dopeyrealm.py instance, available in the contrib folder:

d_front_door = Door(address='2AF9B7',
                     devices=(insteon),
                     name="Front Door Sensor",
                     commands=[Command.OPEN, Command.CLOSE])