Export without Import

[barrygordon]

The ISY portal has an Export capability which will save all of the entries defining the accounts "spoken" phrases and actions to an external file.

 

Of what use is that if there is no matching Import capability?

 

Am I missing something?

 

I would like to use an Export/Import capability to convert from a single account to multiple accounts so I can have specific phrases for each echo device (room oriented) and also have a common base identical on all echos.  For example the phrase "Turn on the guest lights" would exist in all echo's, but the Echo in the guest room would have a phrase "Turn on the lights" that would turn on the lights in the guest room. The master bedroom Echo would have the same phrase turn on the lights in the master bedroom.

 

I know this can be done and I know how to do it but it would be really helpful if I could pre-load each account with the common base which I have exported using a matching Import. 

 

An Export capability with no matching Import seems kind of useless to me.

[bmercier]

It was created initially at the request of a forum user. I believe the purpose was to document the list of spoken, probably for a chart to help users build it.

 

An export was easy to do, as it is simply a dump of the spoken table in the correct format.

 

An import could certainly be done, but requires more development efforts. We need to implement validations, and provide an import error log to the user. This is currently not in the plans.

 

Benoit.

[barrygordon]

Too bad.  It would save me, perhaps others, a lot of time when setting up multiple accounts with a common set of spoken phrases.

 

You now have a request from a forum user to implement Import. perhaps that will help.  I would be happy with a QUAD (quick and Dirty ) version with no checking and no import error logs.  Perhaps just a checksum on the export file to validate that it is a valid export file which should be correct.  Probably good enough for what I want.