setSettings does not work for all types of settings

Developers
1

It seems like I may have hit a bug with the Athom software:
setSettings should accept settings of “any” type according to the documentation:

However, if I have a setting defined with
“type”: “dropdown”,
as described here:

then calling setSettings will report an error as follows:

Device.onInit Error: Error: invalid_setting_type
    at Remote Process
 {
  code: 400
}

This essentially makes the dropdown setting partially useless unless there is another way to set it.

2

on a similar note using “type”: “label”

Then the app does not validate against level ‘debug’
When trying to run
homey app run

Seems like both “dropdown” and “label” types has issues.

3

How do you set the settings? Do you pass the value as string?
Are you passing a JSON object as parameter like { fieldname: “dropdown-id”}?

I had issues when more than one setting had no default value and I tried to set only one of then. So pleass make sure that every setting has a default value on devide adding.

See: device.setSettings( ) resulting in exception for valid values if other settings than this setting are not already existing in device · Issue #248 · athombv/homey-apps-sdk-issues · GitHub

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4

The latest homey CLI tool still doesn’t validate if a setting has a default value :roll_eyes:

5

Do you have an example? I just added a new setting with a default value. I have latest CLI installed (the latest update automatically shown).

6 
        {
          "id": "username",
          "type": "text",
          "label": {
            "en": "Username"
          },
          "hint": {
            "en": "The name of the user."
          }
        },

No default value, no errors when uploading the app to my Homey.

7

And no update on github. I think it has a really low priority.

8

How do you set the settings? Do you pass the value as string?

It turned out that I was trying to set the “dropdown” and “label” type settings to values while it was required to set them to strings.
Thanks