How to get (advanced) properties of devices

Questions & Help
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Hi,

is there any way to get certain properties of devices that are not available in the device app itself?for example, i would like to extract the IP address of a device (which is an advanced setting), as i use this in a flow with a webhook. whenever the IP address changes, it would be nice if i could keep that flow in sync.

kind regards,
Floris

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Hi Floris,

If that IP is stored with ‘Settings’, you can retrieve it per Homeyscript.

Here you can find all available settings and capabilities for your devices:
https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/devices

It’s also gettable by using something like:

let naMe = "my device name"; // change to actual device namr
let ipAddr = _.find(await Homey.devices.getDevices(), d=>d.name == naMe );
console.log(ipAddr);

U can use JSON.parse to filter out the IP address, something like

JSON.parse(ipAddr.settings.address);