Permission for zones/devices

marcello

So I thought to write a simple app for homey, since nodejs is no problem for me.
Just some action cards like all on/off, and on/off per zone seems like a manageable project.

Nice exercise, not a whole lot of in depth documentation, but I think I know how to solve the issue.

1. Make a card. (done)
2. Get the zones and devices.
3. Send devices the on/off command.

At step 2 I get stuck. I found the zones and devices api endpoint, can even read them through a normal browser request (with a login-session that is). 

Homey.manager('api').get('/manager/zones', func....

But if I try to log the results in my app, it errors as follows: "[Error: missing_permission:homey:manager:zones] null"

So yeah, permissions... got it, add homey:manager:zones as permission to the app.json right? 
Nope it errors on initialisation with: "invalid permission `homey:manager:zones`"

So I am wondering, is it not possible to do yet or am I doing it wrong?

In the meantime, I am looking in to the global all on/off.
Something driver something something

MrDutchfighter

Just wondering, couldn't this be implemented by faking speech input? Like "all lights off in the living room". Then you don't have to build an app for it.

marcello

Could be done, but why fake speech (and thus requiring the speech-to-text service over the internet) instead of direct command in homey.

And why build an app over a 'hacky' way. Well:
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime"  

marcello

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Off course faking speech does not require speech-to-text service. But it does require computing to understand the sentence. It's the difference between 1ms and 100ms (I estimate, even longer for more complicated sentences) to perform the task.

MrDutchfighter

Fair point, regarding response time and the need of an active internet connection. But can't help you with the API and zones, sorry