BeoLiving news & support from Khimo!

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Hi everyone,
we can see that Christmas eve will find you all working on new integrations, and really fun and interesting projects! Way to go!!!

Regarding BeoJeff's connectivity issues, we actually saw similar behavior when the Halos have both WiFi and Ethernet available, or when they were configured via WiFi and then changed to a wired connection. It may be that the Halo is always showing the IP address it reserves via WiFi, but this changes when it switches to IP and it can be switching back and forth... Anyway, you can try resetting the Halo to factory settings and connecting directly via the wired connection without configuring the wireless. This may solve the problem. If not send us an email and we can look into it in detail.

We would also like to look into @Chucky's issue with the app becoming unresponsive, we don't normally see this behavior in our labs... Please contact us at support@khimo.com ! Of course, we can then post the solutions here if they appear useful to the community :)

On the subject of lua Macros: the engine.query should be to the resource (so something like engine.query("your_area/your_zone/THERMOSTAT_2SP/Nest/")) and then the .get_number would be to the state of the resource (probably Temp_query[1].get_number("TEMPERATURE")). Good luck and keep it up!

Finally, thanks for all the messages of appreciation and support, they are really appreciated and bring a smile to the team's faces coming in to work in the morning :D

Take care and happy holidays!

Tassos wrote:
I played around a bit and tried with the "real" resource as well but no luck.
it seems to be diffeent.

See the reply of Khimo.😁

Khimo-

Thank you for your message regarding the loss of connection between the BLI and Halos. Actually, only the wall version of the Halo has the option to be wired to the network. The desktop version of the Halo does not have an ethernet port. All of my Halos have always been wifi only.

I have done a factory reset on all of my Halos and the problem keeps recurring.

I came home today and my living room Halo again no longer shows the BLI pages.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hello Jeff,

I just remembered that I was loosing my bli pages when I created buttons that had the alarm icon and if I recall correctly any alarm icon...if it is of any help. I have contacted the khimo team and they told me that they are working on it. I will give it an other go when I am back home.

function(event, engine) 

 

  local Temp_query=engine.query("area/zone/_THERMOSTAT_SENSOR/Temperature/")

 

  local temp = Temp_query[1].get_string("TEMPERATURE")

 

 

 

engine.fire("area/zone/Halo remote/Beoremote Halo/SET_TEXT?BUTTON=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-000000810114&TEXT="..tostring(temp))

 

end 

so far I made this which works fine with the fibaro temperature sensors. If addapted to NEST then an empty text box is what you get.
UPDATE:
It works!!! The code is below. (Hallway is the name of my thermostat)
function(event, engine) 
  local Temp_query=engine.query("area/zone/THERMOSTAT_1SP/Hallway/")
  local temp = Temp_query[1].get("TEMPERATURE")
 
engine.fire("area/zone/Halo remote/Beoremote Halo/SET_TEXT?BUTTON=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-000000810114&TEXT="..tostring(temp))
end 

Hello guys,

I am trying to make a button on the Halo to show as text the number of the cd track playing every time the Halo wakes up. So far I have done the following which works with a big BUT.

function(event, engine) 

  local CD_query=engine.query("Garden/Back Terrace/AV renderer/NL ML Converter/")

  local CD = CD_query[1].get("nowPlayingDetails")

engine.fire("House/Family Room/Halo remote/Beoremote Halo/SET_TEXT?BUTTON=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-000000810XXX&TEXT="..tostring(CD))

end 

I have tried different ways to get the track number but with no success. Is there anyone who knows how to ask for the last part of the nowPlayingDetails? 
As is the code returns "type" which was anyway expected.

Hi

I am thinking of upgrading my BLGW to a BLI, I can borrow one from my dealer to test the benefits when using it with my new BeoRemote Halo, is it possible to get a 30 day trial Pro version like with the BLGW, or can I transfer my Khimo subscription to the BLI for a short Periode?

Søren

Soren wrote:

Hi

I am thinking of upgrading my BLGW to a BLI, I can borrow one from my dealer to test the benefits when using it with my new BeoRemote Halo, is it possible to get a 30 day trial Pro version like with the BLGW, or can I transfer my Khimo subscription to the BLI for a short Periode?

Søren

If your primary interest is seeing how the BLI works with the Halo, the essential version on BLI is really adequate for that. The essential version automatically creates a configuration for Halo with the most logical lights, etc. I was impressed with how the BLI automatically populated the configuration.

Tassos wrote:
I have tried different ways to get the track number but with no success.

function(event, engine) 

  local core = engine.query("your_area/your_zone/AV renderer/your_BLC") 

  local Details_now = core[1].get_string("nowPlayingDetails")

  local track_pos=string.find(Details_now, "track number:")+13

  local track=tonumber(string.sub(Details_now,track_pos,-1))

  engine.fire("your_area/your_zone/Halo remote/your_Beoremote Halo/SET_TEXT?BUTTON=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-000000810xxx&TEXT="..tostring(track))

end

Hello all

I am using essential mode.

Any idea how to move the scene at the bottom to the top?

The Halo shows it at the end of the list and I would like to get it to the start of the list by moving it up.

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