add more docs to thing type and action node

[RSWilli]

I'm using the thing types for presence detection in my local network, and I'm planning to use it for my thermostats

after a bit of fiddeling i came around the action node, and I'm a bit confused by it:

I am trying to set the value from the payload to the count item in the thing

I looked at the basic scene example and from what I can tell I replicated it 1:1, but I must have overlooked something

[RSWilli]

okay after some more fiddeling around, I figured it out:

I didn't have the item type set to loopback command only. maybe this also needs more docs

[RSWilli]

apparently loopback only doesn't allow me to use event nodes with the item

but when I set the item type to "Status & Loopback Command" then i cannot use the action anymore

[flic]

Yep, more docs are needed.

What you're describing should work. Take a look at the example below:

[ { "id": "0728c9e25ba71209", "type": "hal2Thing", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "eventHandler": "e228014191d14be6", "thingType": "d5ffe0552919047a", "name": "Loopback test thing", "attributes": [], "topicFilter": "", "topicFilterType": "mqtt", "topicPrefix": "", "notes": "", "outputs": 0, "x": 360, "y": 680, "wires": [] }, { "id": "2aa3c080d26cc6e6", "type": "hal2Action", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "eventHandler": "e228014191d14be6", "name": "Set 'active' to payload", "commandset": [ { "category": "hal2Thing", "thing": "0728c9e25ba71209", "item": "159e7a28.f5e3d6", "value": "payload", "type": "msg" } ], "ratelimit": 0, "x": 360, "y": 800, "wires": [] }, { "id": "a8abe93abde82244", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "true", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 660, "wires": [ [ "0728c9e25ba71209" ] ] }, { "id": "5bb00ea396d4244f", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "false", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 700, "wires": [ [ "0728c9e25ba71209" ] ] }, { "id": "4ca782f829d6af56", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "true", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 800, "wires": [ [ "2aa3c080d26cc6e6" ] ] }, { "id": "1433f0c70d965ec8", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "false", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 840, "wires": [ [ "2aa3c080d26cc6e6" ] ] }, { "id": "d480c792c8464b68", "type": "debug", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "false", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 490, "y": 940, "wires": [] }, { "id": "0ec518ecbfbf3691", "type": "hal2Group", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "eventHandler": "e228014191d14be6", "name": "Group", "group": [ { "thing": "0728c9e25ba71209", "item": "159e7a28.f5e3d6" } ], "ratelimit": 0, "output": true, "input": true, "outputs": 1, "inputs": 1, "x": 310, "y": 940, "wires": [ [ "d480c792c8464b68" ] ] }, { "id": "a93103ea2d3684c2", "type": "hal2Event", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "eventHandler": "e228014191d14be6", "name": "Loopback test thing active", "topic": "", "thing": "0728c9e25ba71209", "typeSel": "hal2Thing", "item": "159e7a28.f5e3d6", "operator": "always", "change": "1", "compareValue": "", "compareType": "num", "outputValue": "payload", "outputType": "state", "x": 190, "y": 1080, "wires": [ [ "5065094e82437d97" ] ] }, { "id": "5065094e82437d97", "type": "debug", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "false", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 490, "y": 1080, "wires": [] }, { "id": "710e47e4719132ca", "type": "comment", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "Set 'active' directly", "info": "", "x": 170, "y": 620, "wires": [] }, { "id": "227e32044fb969d5", "type": "comment", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "Set 'active' using an action", "info": "", "x": 190, "y": 760, "wires": [] }, { "id": "1dce6af66fcbfc2a", "type": "comment", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "Get and set 'active' using a group", "info": "", "x": 220, "y": 900, "wires": [] }, { "id": "2e82bd39fc1f7758", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "true", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 940, "wires": [ [ "0ec518ecbfbf3691" ] ] }, { "id": "e8a260c959a1bdb8", "type": "inject", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "", "props": [ { "p": "payload" }, { "p": "topic", "vt": "str" } ], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "payload": "false", "payloadType": "bool", "x": 150, "y": 980, "wires": [ [ "0ec518ecbfbf3691" ] ] }, { "id": "ad1343b560e38e1c", "type": "comment", "z": "797bdc9088052f14", "name": "Trigger event on 'active' change", "info": "", "x": 210, "y": 1040, "wires": [] }, { "id": "e228014191d14be6", "type": "hal2EventHandler", "name": "Event handler", "maxlisteners": "50", "heartbeat": "10" }, { "id": "d5ffe0552919047a", "type": "hal2ThingType", "name": "Loopback test type", "contextStore": "filesystem", "nodestatus": "%active%", "items": [ { "name": "active", "id": "159e7a28.f5e3d6", "topicFilterType": "str", "topicFilterValue": "", "topicSuffix": "", "type": "loopback_both", "ingress": "ec279681.0060a8", "egress": "4976b249.e2879c", "notes": "" } ], "attributes": [], "ingress": [ { "name": "Pass-through", "id": "2d956987.ef2ce6", "fn": "// msg object is passed to function\n\nreturn msg.payload;" }, { "name": "Convert to Number", "id": "81c4ed2e.d9dcc", "fn": "// msg object is passed to function\n\nmsg.payload = Number(msg.payload);\nreturn msg.payload;" }, { "name": "Convert to Boolean", "id": "ec279681.0060a8", "fn": "// msg object is passed to function\nswitch(typeof msg.payload) {\n case 'number':\n msg.payload = (msg.payload==1);\n break;\n case 'string':\n msg.payload = (msg.payload == 'true');\n break;\n}\nreturn msg.payload;" } ], "egress": [ { "name": "Pass-through", "id": "4976b249.e2879c", "fn": "// msg object is passed to function\n\nreturn msg;" }, { "name": "Convert to Boolean", "id": "3fb2df57.db66e", "fn": "// msg object is passed to function\n\nmsg.payload = (msg.payload == 'true');\nreturn msg;" } ], "thingStatus": true, "thingCommand": true, "thingOutput": false, "hbCheck": false, "hbType": "lwt", "hbTTL": "", "hbLWT": "2d956987.ef2ce6", "hbFilterVal": "", "hbFilterType": "StrEnd", "filterFunction": "0" } ]

[RSWilli]

thanks for the bigger example!

I had a topic set on the message and a topic filter in the item, that's why it did not update