Changing the text in Indigo's Address column for a device?

Matt and Jay,

I'm trying to find out if it's possible to have a custom device display a "custom" address in the Address column of the Indigo Device list?

The X10 devices in Switchboard show as blank in the list, and the address appears to be a read only field?

Is there an equivalent to UiDisplayStateId for the address field? I didn't see one in the SDK documentation....

- Ben

[matt (support)]

Hi Ben,

Sure, try this:

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dev = indigo.devices[1234]
newProps = dev.pluginProps
newProps['address'] = "something custom"
dev.replacePluginPropsOnServer(newProps)

Hi Ben,

Sure, try this:

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dev = indigo.devices[1234]
newProps = dev.pluginProps
newProps['address'] = "something custom"
dev.replacePluginPropsOnServer(newProps)

Thanks!

Just to clarify, will this change persist through Indigo Server restarts, etc?

In other words, should I be concerned with the overhead of doing this at DeviceComStart, or should I do this only when the Security ID is changed in the Device Preferences screen?

- Ben

[matt (support)]

Yep, all plugin props pushed to the server till be saved. Doing it in DeviceComStart should be fine I think.