@Astro We have in the backlog to add the feature to play a Sonos Favourite. That way you can set a radio station as a favourite and then start that using Flic.
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We are today announcing a Beta release of some new features in the Hub SDK that can be used together with Flic Twist.
In order to seamlessly continue to work with the rest of your smart home devices that you might have assigned to other triggers on the Flic Twist, we introduce the concept of Virtual Devices. A Virtual Device is handled by the Flic Hub firmware just like any other supported real device, but its functionality is implemented by the user in the Hub SDK, typically by writing some kind of bridge software that sends commands and receives update events over the LAN to/from the real device. If for example the brightness of a (real) light is changed by some external means, it is possible to tell the Flic Hub firmware from javascript about the new brightness level, which the hub then forwards to the Flic Twist, so that the LED status can update accordingly. That way when you twist it, it will start from the correct position.
We are also adding a "message" action that can be used to send arbitrary strings to your scripts whenever the action is triggered. The intended use case is to be able to trigger custom code also for Push/Double Push in the Selector feature or perform some action when a specific point is reached in Advanced Dimming or Scene Blender.
The virtual devices can be created in the Flic App and be set to be controlled by a Flic Twist as follows:
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Using this piece of code, updates are received in your javascript code after configuring a virtual device to be triggered in the Flic App for a specific Flic Twist:
const flicapp = require("flicapp"); flicapp.on("virtualDeviceUpdate", (metaData, values) => { // The values object can contain hue, saturation, brightness, colorTemperature, volume, position (for blinds) console.log(`Twist ${metaData.buttonId} updated virtual device ${metaData.virtualDeviceId} of type ${metaData.dimmableType} with these values: ${JSON.stringify(values)}`); });When a device is modified externally, we use this function to inform the system of the change:
flicapp.virtualDeviceUpdateState(dimmableType, virtualDeviceId, values);The dimmableType can be either "Light", "Speaker" or "Blind". The values is an object containing at least one of the fields mentioned above that is appropriate for the corresponding dimmableType. For example:
flicapp.virtualDeviceUpdateState("Light", "my_ceiling_light", {hue: 0.6, saturation: 0.7, brightness: 0.8});The values themselves are always floating point numbers between 0 and 1.
Configure an action message to be triggered by assigning the following action in the Flic app:
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The action messages are easy to receive, just register a listener as follows:
flicapp.on("actionMessage", message => console.log(`Got a message: ${message}`));We'd love to hear your feedback!
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Hi all,
Just started using Flic for our office. I have a case that I didn't figure out yet.
We use the button to play a song whenever someone pushes the button. Afterwards I would like to start the sonos radio after 30 seconds.
Is there a possibility to start sonos radio? I haven't find a way yet.
Thx in advance!
#sonos
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I have moved apartments and have a whole new network setup.
I reset my Flic mini hub and connected it to the new network. I reset and added two of my Flic Twists to the hub with no errors.
I went to reset and add my third Flic Twist and nothing happens when I hold down the center button for the requested 10 seconds. Eventually I get an error 3x1 message.
I can't use this Twist now.
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I just got a new Optoma projector, and thought I'd just record the on/off button and switch out the old one I had for a BenQ projector, but it didn't work. Are there IR remotes that anyone else knows the Hub IR blaster can't handle?