[ZeroBrane Studio] Re: Feature request: Fibaro Lua support
- From: "Erwin van Beem (Outlook.com)" <evanbeem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:37:25 +0100
Hi Paul and Thijs,
I’m sorry to react a bit late to the discussion. There are a few things I need
to put straight, though:
First of all, the Fibaro indeed uses LUA 5.2. It differs not so much from the
Vera implementation. Vera uses “Luup”, Fibaro uses…well, “fibaro” as a prefix
to their device interface.
Second, the Fibaro uses LUA for almost everything: scenes and virtual devices.
When you take a graphic scene and want to edit it in more detail, fibaro
translates it to LUA for you. Messy, but still LUA.
Third, when you want to make a specific virtual device, JSON is often used
instead of LUA. I don’t have any experience with that, but if you want to
create a debug-plugin of sorts, I suppose you’ll end up using that.
Fourth, opposed to what Thijs claims, you can use a full fledged LUA
environment with functions and all and yes, you can pass parameters along,
together with results. Fibaro also uses global as well as local variables.
I can send some samples of quite intricate coding others have come up with, if
you’re interested.
I looked at the Vera implementation of ZeroBrane and it bears much resemblance
to the fibaro-interface I would like and also the command structure and
LUA-implementation are similar. At least from the looks of it. Don’t have a
Vera, so I can’t check that in detail.
For Fibaro, the debug-feature could probably be built as a plugin or virtual
device. Docs on both subjects, however, are nowhere to be found on the web. I
could try to ask the fibaro support guys if they have any.
Code checking is probably as straightforward as it would be for the Vera and
Luup.
Hope this clears a few things up. Thanks for the effort, so far!
Regards,
Erwin
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Namens Paul K
Verzonden: dinsdag 10 februari 2015 21:27
Aan: zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Onderwerp: [ZeroBrane Studio] Re: Feature request: Fibaro Lua support
Hi Thijs,
> There is no shared environment. So each piece of event handler code, has its
> own environment. (not even shared with the main loop thing)
> See https://github.com/Tieske/fibaroHue
Very useful information (here and in the module README); thank you.
I presume it may be possible to load custom modules (like a debugger), right?
Also, is there a way to talk to the device remotely, for example, using http?
This is useful for running code fragments and starting debugging remotely...
Paul.
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