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Posted: November 24 2013 at 09:34 | IP Logged Quote smarty
I was doing some macro clean-up/optimization when I stumbled across this...

The PH command "ph_getinsteonstat()" should return a "0", "1", or "2" per the help documentation.

It appears to me that in cases were the status is unknown, the "0" is NEVER RETURNED. In the formula below, I check for all possible states, but I can't make an "Unknown" result - even when I scramble the {Room Device ID} to gibberish.

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if(ph_getinsteonstat("{ROOM DEVICE ID}")=1,"Off",if(ph_getinsteonstat("{ROOM DEVICE ID}")=2,"On","Unknown"))

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Posted: November 26 2013 at 21:27 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Smarty,

I checked the code for this function and its rather simplistic. It doesn't check for the existence of the actual device ID. It merely pulls the "Status" field from the Insteon devices table and interprets the result. In the case of an ID that doesn't actually exist, the select actually fails (this is not checked for) and the result is a default of 0 which will cause the function to return a 1. The only way a 0 will be returned is if the Status value is -1 which is the default when a device is first created.

I'll rewrite this function to include error handling and make it a bit more robust.

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