[Question] How to use / am I missing something?

[tampiss]

Hi, I have Raspi 4 with Node-RED installed. I have installed this plugin to enable me to connect to Smartthings cloud and obtain status of my Samsung Washer and Samsung Dryer. When I create a new flow, add My device node - fill in the token, I get the list of my devices. I unselect all and chose only 1 (for example Samsung Washer), then I deploy. After that, I add status or event node and sometimes I can choose the appropriate selects, but most of the time they are empty...

Any hints please?
Thank you, Martin

[shgood]

Hi,

Could you let us know a more detailed situation?
i.g. when your device disappears / whether node-red was restarted or not

And It would be better if you could give us browser and node-red runtime logs.

Thank you!

[tampiss]

@shgood well I actually saw the list of devices in Status or Event nodes once and I am unable to simulate it again. Since now, I always get an empty select boxes. I tried to uninstall the plugin, but that did not help. Please see attached files, to clarify my problem. For example, if I open the Command node, the list of devices exists. By the way, what is the best way for you to get you the node-red runtime log? How to access it please?

I am running node-red on Raspi 4, Homebridge image:
Node version is v14.16.1
NPM version 6.14.12
Node-RED 1.3.1
Your plugin 1.1.3

Browser/PC:
MacOS Big Sure 11.2.3
Safari 14.0.3 (tried dirrefent user agents for Chrome, Edge...)
Even tried Chrome app version 85.0.4183.83

[shgood]

1. event-device node work with "automation" node only. So in your case, event-device node doesn't work.

2. when you enter "F12" key on the chrome, you can see the chrome console log like below.
   
   If there are log messages, share them here.

3. could you share capabilities list of your devices?
   In the device list, you can get capabilities information like below.
   
   Because there may be no capability available for status-node if only command-device node works.

[tampiss]

@shgood Hi, bellow are the print-screens. Hope it helps. Martin

ReferenceError: addTitle is not defined
at t..._create (red.min.js:16)
at t..._create (vendor.js:10)
at t..._createWidget (vendor.js:10)
at new t.. (vendor.js:10)
at HTMLOListElement. (vendor.js:10)
at Function.each (vendor.js:2)
at s.fn.init.each (vendor.js:2)
at s.fn.init.t.fn. [as editableList] (vendor.js:10)
at DeviceNodeEventHandler.THING.initContainer (:890:92)
at DeviceNodeEventHandler (:1179:15)

[shgood]

Hi,
I think It's related to node-red 1.3.1 issue

node-red/node-red#2933

please, install node-red 1.3.2 or 1.3.3.

[tampiss]

@shgood YES!! 🙌 👏 👍 this fixed the issue.. May I ask one more question? Does it mean, I have to have each device on separate flow? Its not problem for me, but just asking. If I create flow, select My device node and select 2 devices, when I use Event/Status node, I only get active the first one and the rest is disabled. Thank you, Martin

[shgood]

No, you don't need to.

If a device is disabled on the select, that device is not an appropriate device used by Event/Status/Command node.

It means that there are some conditions.
i.g. Status node use device that has attributes property / Command node use device that has command property ...

And when you hover mouse over the disabled select option, you can see the reason why the device is disabled.

[tampiss]

@shgood see my trouble. If I create flow, select My Device, then select 2 devices, deploy. Then I add Event node and only first device is selected. If I open the device select, all devices are disabled (see print-screen)... So I can only work with the one preselected..

Now, I have 2 flows, where in both I select different Device in My device node.. By adding Event node to each flow, I have correctly preselected device and I can work with it.. yet still all devices are disabled when I open the select.

[shgood]

The current behavior seems to be a bug in a safari browser.
In a normal case, a disabled device cannot be selected.

But. as I said, event-device node work with "automation" node only.
In event-node, you can select the only device set in "device profile" node.
Because They are set in my-device node, those devices are disabled.

Please, use status-node instead of event-node to get device status.

[kudlaaaty]

Hi,
I have very simmilar problem. I'm using Samsung Automation Studio Palette (1.1.6) in Node Red (1.3.5) in Home Assistant (2021.6.5). When I initailly insert "My device" node, and put there a token devices are visible:

After that I can i.e. add command node and set some device property:

Afer deploy everything is working just fine, but when i left the Node Red and open it again, devices and other node properties of "My device" node are gone:

as well as in the "Command" node:

I've found this behaviour very similar to the case described in this topic, however I'm using version of Node Red above the 1.3.3. I've tried also different browsers (Chrome, Edge, FireFox) but witout any success. Any ideas what could gone wrong?

I have the same problem ... (palette 1.1.6)

[kudlaaaty]

@shgood after upgrade to 1.1.7 this behaviour still exists