{"id":2804,"date":"2010-03-24T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2010-03-24T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:26:58","slug":"indigo-automatic-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/indigo-automatic-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Automatic Polling??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overall, I love Indigo. But one thing that is very annoying and doesn’t seem to be built in, is the ability to poll all devices on a regular scheduled basis (ie: every 5 mins, 10 mins, etc.) of the status of my devices. This mainly causes a problem when accessing my system via my iPhone. When I connect, the status of my devices is more often then not, incorrect and showing things that are on when I know they’re off, or showing something at 20% dim when I know it’s 80% etc. and there is no way to request a refresh.
\nSo what I want (need) to do is be able to regularly poll my devices so that their status is accurate and kept updated.
\nDoes anyone know of an AppleScript or other way to easily do this?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, yes… \u00c2\u00a0There are quite a few different ways… \u00c2\u00a0But the simplest way to do this is this applescript…<\/span><\/p>\n

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tell<\/strong> application<\/em><\/span> “IndigoServer”<\/p>\n

<\/span>with<\/strong> timeout<\/strong> of<\/strong> 60 seconds<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>try<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>repeat<\/strong> with<\/strong> curDevice<\/span> in<\/strong> devices<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>status request<\/strong> (<\/span>curDevice<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>delay<\/strong><\/span> 0.75<\/p>\n

<\/span>end<\/strong> repeat<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>end<\/strong> try<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>end<\/strong> timeout<\/strong><\/p>\n

end<\/strong> tell<\/strong><\/p>\n

The delay statement may not completely be necessary, but I found during testing that if there wasn't a delay, that the requests would backlog and it would take a few moments for everything to clear out...<\/span><\/pre>\n
But this was originally written with a 2414U, and I haven’t retested this with a 2412U\/2413U. \u00c2\u00a0The 2412U & 2413U both should allow a reduction in the delay…<\/p>\n
Update — I just tested with my 2413U… \u00c2\u00a0I was able to reduce the delay to 0.15 without seeing a significant backlog in requests developing. \u00c2\u00a0Changing to 0.10 showed a significant backlog if any device had any delay in responding (ie was more than a 2 hops away).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overall, I love Indigo. But one thing that is very annoying and doesn’t seem to be built in, is the ability to poll all devices on a regular scheduled basis (ie: every 5 mins, 10 mins, etc.) of the status of my devices. This mainly causes a problem when accessing my system via my iPhone. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,68,4,5],"tags":[163,162,111,141,89,71,1839,91,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}