Indigo v5 has introduced a new Plugin system, to extend the hardware and functionality of the Indigo server. This is a terrific step forward, but there’s another issue lurking in the background….<\/p>\n
I won’t count the number of times where someone has reported a problem with an Attachment script, or plugin, and it has already been fixed…<\/p>\n
I feel that we need to be pro-active, and fix this issue… Indigo Plugins need a way to check for an updated plugin, to help ensure that the operators know when a new version of a plugin is available. http:\/\/www.indigo-plugins.com<\/a> is the first step in solving this problem…<\/p>\n Currently, I am a beginner with Django. I would welcome any assistance from the Indigo Community, in assisting in the creation of this site…<\/p>\n In a nutshell, the site assists in several different ways:<\/p>\n Technical Details, and the first prototype<\/strong><\/p>\n Demo URL for update server… These are the changes necessary, to make this update engine work… These are the changes that I made when I updated the External IP Address & Dynamic DNS plugin:<\/p>\n I added the following Globals variables:<\/p>\n plugin_id = r’com.schollnick.indigoplugin.External_IP’ In the startup() function:<\/p>\n Added self.VersionCheck () <\/span>def <\/span>VersionCheck ( self ): <\/span>if float(version_found) > float(self.pluginVersion): <\/span><\/p>\n And that’s it. The server will return the version number of the latest version of the plugin, the URL to find the update, and the Plugin Name. The VersionCheck function will fetch this, and compare that with the existing plugin’s version number. If the server “wins”, then a log message is entered into the log. Optionally (self.browserOpen), a web browser window can be opened to the URL that the server sent.<\/p>\n I am planning to add additional features to the server, but I want to invite all the developers to contact me, so that we can start to register their plugins and enable these features… <\/p>\n At this point, one missing feature on the server is user registration… So please email me at Benjamin AT schollnick DOT net, and I’ll setup an account for you, so that you can enter your plugin information… (Or you can email it to me…)<\/p>\n If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send it as well…<\/p>\n Updated 9\/7\/2011, with the addition of the browser URL & Plugin name, being sent from the update server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indigo v5 has introduced a new Plugin system, to extend the hardware and functionality of the Indigo server. This is a terrific step forward, but there’s another issue lurking in the background…. I won’t count the number of times where someone has reported a problem with an Attachment script, or plugin, and it has already […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[71,612,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378"}],"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=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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http:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000\/VersionCheck\/com. … xternal_IP<\/a><\/p>\n
version_check_site = r’http:\/\/www.indigo-plugins.com’
version_check_url = version_check_site + “\/VersionCheck\/%s” % plugin_id<\/p>\n
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<\/span>#
<\/span># <\/span>Run a VersionCheck to help ensure that the plugin is up to date
<\/span> #
<\/span>data = urllib2.urlopen( version_check_url ).read()
<\/span>version_found, update_url, plugin_name = data.split(“,”)
self.debugLog (“Version Check Server reports %s is available.” % version_found) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span> indigo.server.log ( “A New Version of %s v.%s is available. You can download the upgrade from %s” % (self.pluginDisplayName, version_found, update_url), type=”Upgrade”, isError=True )
<\/span> #self.browserOpen ( <\/span>update_url )<\/p>\n