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Re: Modifying channel properties [message #1696889 is a reply to message #1696802] |
Fri, 29 May 2015 08:58 |
Chris Jackson Messages: 256 Registered: December 2013 |
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Hi Dan,
Just a thought - do you really need to change the channels, or should you be changing the item labels?
If I understand what you're wanting to do, you have a remote control, or a device, and it has (for example) buttons A, B and C, or outputs labeled, OUT1, OUT2 etc. These are physical labels on the box(?). My thought would be that these are the channel names - they are physical things, and this is what I think therefore should remain associated with the channel... On the other side of the system you then have the item, and you can give the item a different name...
So, you can have Channel OUT1, linked to an item named ITEM_OUT1, with a label XBMC (for example).
Likewise in the SONOS favorites - I don't know quite how you intend this to work, but you could have a favorites channel, with multiple items connected to it (or a single item with multiple selections), and you populate the item(s) with your favorite options - the channel is still just called 'favorites'...
Just my thoughts - it might not fit with how you want it to work, and I might also be wrong in my understanding, but I don't think that the channel necessarily needs to change as the user interface will see the items - not channels.
Chris
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Re: Modifying channel properties [message #1696970 is a reply to message #1696892] |
Fri, 29 May 2015 19:55 |
Dan Cunningham Messages: 44 Registered: March 2014 |
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Thanks for your responses. The use case is to auto populate a dropdown (or something) with a list of choices that is dynamically generated. So for SONOS this would query your favorites and add them as selections to the favorite channel (which takes a string, the name of the favorite to play). I was assuming this had to be done on a channel, I did not think about using items. I'm still finding my way around the ESH architecture, I need to do some more research so I can have a more intelligent conversation about this.
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