OwnTracks - Swap Display Name with Device Network ID

[Cjkeenan]

This is just a simple swap between using the name to denote who and where the presence is for from the Display Name/Display Label (what most people organize by) to the Device Network ID. This allows for the user to change the display name/label as they please for organization purposes of their devices without breaking any functionality. It would require a modification of the setup-guide however.

Please let me know if I am breaking anything by making this change.

Variable names ideally would be changed around a little for clarity, but I figured I would leave that to you so that I did not screw anything up.

[Cjkeenan]

Alternatively, and this might be better, do not modify the Device Network ID by leaving the generated GUID. Instead add preferences as part of the driver to denote person and location/region. It would require accessing these preferences inside the app however.

[Cjkeenan]

So I am trying to rework it using Preferences and State Variables and I have gotten the driver to successfully save this data, but the app for whatever reason cannot see these state variables. I have tried using the following and nothing seems to be working: def myLocation = myDevice.getDataValue("region") def myLocation = myDevice.state.region def myLocation = myDevice.data.region def myLocation = myDevice.currentValue("region") def myLocation = myDevice.currentState("region")

Virtual Device for reference:

Added this to the driver:

metadata {
...
        //attribute "region", "text"
        //attribute "user" , "text"

        preferences { 
            input name: "region", type: "text", title: "Location/Region to Track", required: true
            input name: "user", type: "text", title: "User to Track", required: true
        }
}
...
def updated() {
    //sendEvent(name: "user", value: "${user}")
    //sendEvent(name: "region", value: "${region}")
    state.clear()
    state.region = "${region}"
    state.user = "${user}"
}

When I use the attribute and it stores the data in the Current States it is fine and def myLocation = myDevice.currentValue("region") works but I was under the impression State Variables are more setup variables than current values which I think the user and region would be.

Any ideas on what is going wrong or what the next steps might be?

[Cjkeenan]

Replaced by https://github.com/bdwilson/hubitat/pull/3 and https://github.com/bdwilson/hubitat/pull/2