How to use custom commands

[Oliver Kraitschy]

Hi Zaid,

sorry for the delay, i've been busy with other things and didn't have the time
to play with custom commands.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 12:05:49AM +0300, Zaid Abdulla wrote:

> There's a special preset configuration for custom commands. You need to
> use that.

Yes, i figured out that i need to use

<filename-without-extension> <functionname>

in the custom_command_age configuration.
> 
> > 4. What is the parameter path of a custom command? I got a subtree
> > InternetGatewayDevice.CustomCommand but it has zero entries. But if i
> > look in the mongodb, i see the custom command with its value,
> > associated with the device.
> 
> It's _customCommands.<command_name>.

My custom command gets executed successfully every 120 seconds, nevertheless
i don't see any entries at that path, just the subtree without any actual
entries in it.

Here is my test custom command update_firmware.js:

// get: fetches some value from outside
exports.get = function(deviceId, args, callback) {
  var err = 0;
  if (err) return callback(err);
  return callback(err, "foobar");
};

// init: is executed on device bootstrap
exports.init = function(deviceId, args, callback) {
  return exports.get(deviceId, args, callback);
};

// get: sets some value on the outside
exports.set = function(deviceId, args, callback) {
  return;
};

Why is the value not shown in the parameters list?


I want to do an automatic firmware update triggered by the ACS, with a preset.
Just adding a Software version configuration to a preset didn't trigger the
firmware update.

Can i trigger it with a custom command then? (I can push a file from the gui
so it should be doable with a custom command.) Did you already do that in the
past? If yes, can you share how you did it?

Thank you in advance.

Greetings,
Oliver