Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck and other controllers to be a professional shotbox surface for an increasing amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
I believe the value should not be blank, as it's not currently possible in companion to distinguish between a blank variable and an unavailable variable. If a surface is not connected, the location variable is unavailable, while when it's connected it's blank. Both result in false from bool(), for instance.
Usecases
I want to show on a certain page (via the web emulator) the status of all physical devices, both via USB and satellite. I can do this for the satellite devices, as their IP addresses are non-empty but I can't do it for the USB devices.
Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?
Is there an existing issue for this?
Describe the feature
Initially mentioned in https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/issues/2733 when I thought it was a bug.
I believe the value should not be blank, as it's not currently possible in companion to distinguish between a blank variable and an unavailable variable. If a surface is not connected, the location variable is unavailable, while when it's connected it's blank. Both result in
falsefrombool(), for instance.Usecases
I want to show on a certain page (via the web emulator) the status of all physical devices, both via USB and satellite. I can do this for the satellite devices, as their IP addresses are non-empty but I can't do it for the USB devices.