Groups device ID and problems in general

deCONZ REST-API Support
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Hi,

in the groups, i have integer as IDs in the lights section. Problem is, i use the uniqueids for the lights and dont store the normal id. Is it possible to implement this? Also when calling the group, it would be awesome, if i would get the current state of the lights (bri, sat,…) otherwise i have to query a light manually

3

Hello, so you want a request to have all light state in a group ? But what do you want to do with that ?

4

Why would you not? I could just query a group and get all the information that i want. Less lines of code. Less API calls.

5

Because all individual state are already updated by individual websocket event, no need to ask them.

6

Doesnt help if you use the Rest API and not Websockets.

7

Websocket are here for that, for user don’t need to query device, and have state in real time.

8

Is there a reason you’re not using websockets?

9

I checked out the websockets and its pretty cool… however, it only gives me changes. I need an initial state of all devices (on page load) and could afterwards work with the websockets.

Just to give some more information: i am building an interface to control all lights, see all sensors and so on and there are multiple pages. When i change the page, it needs to load the devices on that page. What i do is i get all devices with the API and then i use pooling to get all device states

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Yes, first do a call to “http://host:port/api/self.api_key” to retrieve the complete state of the system, then you do updates from the websocket

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thanks a lot, i must have overlooked that in the api docu.

Just one more question. I get this:

e: "changed"
id: "8"
r: "sensors"
state: Object { lastupdated: "2022-08-31T21:24:23.116", open: false }
lastupdated: "2022-08-31T21:24:23.116"
open: false
<prototype>: Object { … }
t: "event"
uniqueid: "00:15:8d:00:08:07:63:88-01-0006"

Is it somehow possible to also get the type of device in that response? For example in this case its a door sensor and i think it would be ZHAOpenClose

12

No, you will need to look it up from the complete state.

What language are you doing this in?