Blocky Virtual Text input

[pro2call]

Hello,

Im running a script wich read's out my yamaha reciever. it update's the switch perfectly. Only when i want to read the status in blocky to make events. ist not doing anything. please help.

[Slinkos]

That's because "Radio" is not the state of your switch. It's more something like a property. It's hard for me to give a solution for this right away, but maybe you can get some more info if you look at the properties using /json.htm?type=devices&rid=IDX

Maybe you can add a json command to your script that also updates the state of the switch itself to "Radio"

[pro2call]

Hello slinkos,

Any idea how to get the data into some useful position?

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{
   "ActTime" : 1508950630,
   "ServerTime" : "2017-10-25 18:57:10",
   "Sunrise" : "08:21",
   "Sunset" : "18:19",
   "result" : [
      {
         "AddjMulti" : 1.0,
         "AddjMulti2" : 1.0,
         "AddjValue" : 0.0,
         "AddjValue2" : 0.0,
         "BatteryLevel" : 255,
         "CustomImage" : 0,
         "Data" : "HDMI1",
         "Description" : "",
         "Favorite" : 1,
         "HardwareID" : 8,
         "HardwareName" : "Virtual switch ",
         "HardwareType" : "Dummy (Does nothing, use for virtual switches only)",
         "HardwareTypeVal" : 15,
         "HaveTimeout" : false,
         "ID" : "00082124",
         "LastUpdate" : "2017-10-25 18:57:06",
         "Name" : "Versterker input",
         "Notifications" : "false",
         "PlanID" : "0",
         "PlanIDs" : [ 0 ],
         "Protected" : false,
         "ShowNotifications" : false,
         "SignalLevel" : "-",
         "SubType" : "Text",
         "Timers" : "false",
         "Type" : "General",
         "TypeImg" : "text",
         "Unit" : 1,
         "Used" : 1,
         "XOffset" : "0",
         "YOffset" : "0",
         "idx" : "124"
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK",
   "title" : "Devices"
}

[Slinkos]

Actually I did not look at it good enough. It's not a switch but text utilty as you say in your subject. Maybe we can think of another way to achieve what you want? Do you really need this kind of switch? Maybe you can fill a variable, or use a selector switch or whatever. It all depends on your goal.

[Slinkos]

So i did some testing myself with virtual text sensor. Blocky doesn't seem to be triggered by a new svalue, but it can be achieved in LUA. Use the following script:

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commandArray = {}

if (devicechanged['Versterker input']) then
	if (otherdevices_svalues['Versterker input'] == 'Radio') then
	    commandArray['Dummy']='On'
	    print ("Versterker input");
	end
end

return commandArray

I added a print as you did a Write-Log in your blocky. I also did added a command that switches a Dummy switch to 'On'. That's because I don't know what your goal is in the end. If you need any more help with that let me know.