HomeyScript scopes / authorization

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I’m having a lot of fun with HomeyScript. Reading through several topics on this forum taught me a lot. Although now I’m running into a problem that is not yet answered.

(I focussed this on updating a variable, but this also applies to i.e. triggering flows)

When I want to update a logic variable, I should do as followed:

Homey.logic.updateVariable({id: <String>, variable: <Variable object>});

Confusion #1: id? What ID? For now I’m going to use my own ID.

let me = await Homey.users.getUserMe();
let variable = await Homey.logic.getVariable({id: 'variable-id'});
Homey.logic.updateVariable({id: me.id, variable: variable});

This will return:

Script Error:
Je hebt geen toegang om dit te doen. (translation: You have no permission to do this)

Confusion #2: Why can’t I update variables when I can change things on a device with setCapabilityValue()?

When I check my permissions:

let session = await Homey.sessions.getSessionMe();
log(session);

I see indeed that I have almost only readonly permissions:

t {
  __athom_api_type: 'HomeyAPI.ManagerSessions.Session',
  id: ...',
  type: 'APP',
  agent: 'com.athom.homeyscript',
  scopes: 
   [ 'resource',
     'homey.alarm',
     'homey.system.readonly',
     'homey.updates.readonly',
     'homey.geolocation.readonly',
     'homey.zone.readonly',
     'homey.device.readonly',
     'homey.device.control',
     'homey.flow.readonly',
     'homey.user.readonly',
     'homey.user.self',
     'homey.app.readonly',
     'homey.app.control',
     'homey.presence.readonly',
     'homey.insights.readonly',
     'homey.logic.readonly',
     'homey.speech' ],

Confusion #3: When I check my session, why is 'com.athom.homeyscript' my agent?
Confusion #4: When I check out the me-object, my user role is role: 'owner', I should be able to do everything I want, because I really own Homey.

Question:
How can I update my variables? How can I trigger my flows?
Is it:

Homey version: 3.1.0
HomeyScript version: 1.1.1

2

Yet somehow, Athom has decided that Homeyscript should have limited permissions.

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You can change variables (tag) in HomeyScript only when they are created in HomeyScript and that variables are gone after a restart of Homey.

await setTagValue(“bas”, {type: “string”, title: “bas”}, b);

4

HomeySript states that the setTagValue is used to “Create, edit, remove a flow tag.”

What I have is a loop in a script that executes every x-minutes. In this loop I’d like to use variables that can be changed by other flows. I haven’t tried yet, but I doubt that the flow-tags are editable by separate triggered flows :frowning:

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They are! Even a better advise is “Try before you doubt”

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i doubt if that is really true. can you explain how this happend? and… how to get rid of them? trust me, my homey has been rebooted multiple times since then.

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“Delete a Flow Token by providing null as value.”

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that indeed works… i have a lot to do :frowning:

thanks!

but… somehow it is possible then…

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That was nov. 2019, now they are kept after restart.
In the new examples it is shown how te create, edit and delete the tags.