EventGhost + zVirtualScenes Integration Plugins

[Sem;colon]

Hello hairlesshobo,

why does the device ID in zVirtualScenes not match the ID of the device in the plugin (but name matches)??

[hairlesshobo]

Sorry for the late response on this. For some reason I didn't get notified of the new post. This has something to do with the IDs that are used by the WebAPI. I forget the exact details since it has been a while since I looked at the code, but I remember there not being any way to get around this unfortunately.

[m19brandon]

For the zVirtualScenes Control plugin for EventGhost should I use Beta 2 or Beta 3. Just got my z-stick and one wall switch today and I cant wait to play around with this.

[m19brandon]

What am I doing wrong. The logs in zVirtualScenes show events sent to EventGhost but I do not see them in EventGhost.

zVirtualScenes - Logs

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2014-12-25 21:08:45,287 [bl3][Thread:11][INFO] zvs.Processor.Core - Light - Family Room Basic changed from 0 to 255.
2014-12-25 21:08:45,381 [bl3][Thread:11][INFO] EventGhostPlugin.EventGhostPlugin - Light - Family Room (2): Set Basic, new value: 255, old value: 0

EventGhost - Logs

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20:59:56   System.Idle
21:10:20   System.UnIdle

Also more of a zVirtualScenes questions but I know Steve may know. I am seeing about a 10-20 minute delay when I turn my one switch on or off from zVirtualScenes, any thoughts?

[m19brandon]

Should I upgrade to zVirtualScenes 8.0 or hold off?

[hairlesshobo]

I haven't personally used it yet so I have no way to know whether or not the plugins will work with it. I kinda doubt it will because I had to modify the source code to fix a major bug in the API, and chances are that if the code was fixed in version 8, it was likely fixed in a manner that does not line up with the EventGhost plugin.

If you would, give it a shot and see if it works or not and let me know. If it turns out that it does not work, I will look into updating my plugins to be compatible.

[m19brandon]

I'm scared of change, maybe this weekend.

[sintei]

m19brandon, did you try out the new v8 of virtualscenes and the plugin to Eventghost yet?

[m19brandon]

I did not get a chance too. I took a look at the documentation and it will not work. Plus I opened an issue with them about requiring to run with elevated rights, that does not go well with Windows 8.1.

[sintei]

I did a quick test with V8. The application force closed on me when selecting my z-wave stick so I went back to V7.
Waiting for Steve to finish up his own software so I can try it

[m19brandon]

Now that my wife has given me the go ahead to add z-wave devices everywhere from our original 2 switch test, I added 5 more this week but have to add some code per switch. Does anyone of a better option? A dictionary maybe with the zVs service name, Im looking for some ideas. My current code to track status is using the Event Name="TCP.zVirtualScenes.Basic" followed by this python script. Any thoughts?

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p = eg.event.payload
if p[1] == 'Light - Family Room':
    if p[4] == '0':
        eg.globals.zlight_family = True
        print 'Light - Family Room is now ON'
    if p[4] == '255':
        eg.globals.zlight_family = False
        print 'Light - Family Room is now OFF'
elif p[1] == 'Light - Master Bedroom':
    if p[4] == '0':
        eg.globals.zlight_master_bedroom = True
        print 'Light - Master Bedroom is now ON'
    if p[4] == '255':
        eg.globals.zlight_master_bedroom = False
        print 'Light - Master Bedroom is now OFF'
elif p[1] == 'Light - House Front':
    if p[4] == '0':
        eg.globals.zlight_house_front = True
        print 'Light - House Front is now ON'
    if p[4] == '255':
        eg.globals.zlight_house_front = False
        print 'Light - House Front is now OFF'
else:
    print 'Unknown Device ' + str(p)

[m19brandon]

I updated to zvs 8 and the the webapi has been rewriten. /v2 is now /obdata. And all the commands look different.

Rolled back to zvs 7 and it works.

Side questions any idea why the webapi received a command but hangs for a minute and then zvs start work on the command?

[Derbyboy]

Could you get the plugin to work with v 8?


Pls

[m19brandon]

This plugin works well. I did find that the websevice in zVirtualScenes seems to suspend after a few minutes and is slow to respond. Thus I post a post command every minute to make sure everything working when I need it.

[PanteraGSTK]

Does anyone still use this plugin? I've tried everything I can think of to get it to connect with v7 of zvirtualscenes, but no success.

I can get to the webserver without issue, but if I add /v2 to the end I get an error. I am running the correct version 7 if I'm not mistaken.

Thoughts?