ConnectableDevice

Overview

ConnectableDevice serves as a normalization layer between your app and each of the device’s services. It consolidates a lot of key data about the physical device and provides access to underlying functionality.

In Depth

ConnectableDevice consolidates some key information about the physical device, including model name, friendly name, ip address, connected DeviceService names, etc. In some cases, it is not possible to accurately select which DeviceService has the best friendly name, model name, etc. In these cases, the values of these properties are dependent upon the order of DeviceService discovery.

To be informed of any ready/pairing/disconnect messages from each of the DeviceService, you must set a delegate.

ConnectableDevice exposes capabilities that exist in the underlying DeviceServices such as TV Control, Media Player, Media Control, Volume Control, etc. These capabilities, when accessed through the ConnectableDevice, will be automatically chosen from the most suitable DeviceService by using that DeviceService’s CapabilityPriorityLevel.

Properties

id<ConnectableDeviceDelegate > delegate
Delegate which should receive messages on certain events.
NSString * id
Universally unique ID of this particular ConnectableDevice object, persists between sessions in ConnectableDeviceStore for connected devices
NSString * address
Current IP address of the ConnectableDevice.
NSString * friendlyName
An estimate of the ConnectableDevice’s current friendly name.
NSString * modelName
An estimate of the ConnectableDevice’s current model name.
NSString * modelNumber
An estimate of the ConnectableDevice’s current model number.
NSString * lastKnownIPAddress
Last IP address this ConnectableDevice was discovered at.
NSString * lastSeenOnWifi
Name of the last wireless network this ConnectableDevice was discovered on.
double lastConnected
Last time (in seconds from 1970) that this ConnectableDevice was connected to.
double lastDetection
Last time (in seconds from 1970) that this ConnectableDevice was detected.
BOOL isConnectable
Whether the device has any DeviceServices that require an active connection (websocket, HTTP registration, etc)
BOOL connected
Whether all the DeviceServices are connected.
NSArray * services
Array of all currently discovered DeviceServices this ConnectableDevice has associated with it.
BOOL hasServices
Whether the ConnectableDevice has any running DeviceServices associated with it.
NSArray * capabilities
A combined list of all capabilities that are supported among the detected DeviceServices.

Methods

- (void) connect

Enumerates through all DeviceServices and attempts to connect to each of them. When all of a ConnectableDevice’s DeviceServices are ready to receive commands, the ConnectableDevice will send a connectableDeviceReady: message to its delegate.

It is always necessary to call connect on a ConnectableDevice, even if it contains no connectable DeviceServices.

- (void) disconnect
Enumerates through all DeviceServices and attempts to disconnect from each of them.
- (void) addService:(DeviceService *)service

Adds a DeviceService to the ConnectableDevice instance. Only one instance of each DeviceService type (webOS, Netcast, etc) may be attached to a single ConnectableDevice instance. If a device contains your service type already, your service will not be added.

Parameters:

  • service – DeviceService to be added to the ConnectableDevice
- (void) removeServiceWithId:(NSString *)serviceId

Removes a DeviceService from the ConnectableDevice instance. serviceId is used as the identifier because only one instance of each DeviceService type may be attached to a single ConnectableDevice instance.

Parameters:

  • serviceId – Id of the DeviceService to be removed from the ConnectableDevice
- (DeviceService *) serviceWithName:(NSString *)serviceId

Obtains a service from the device with the provided serviceId

Parameters:

  • serviceId – Service ID of the targeted DeviceService (webOS, Netcast, DLNA, etc)

Returns: DeviceService with the specified serviceId or nil, if none exists

- (BOOL) hasCapability:(NSString *)capability

Test to see if the capabilities array contains a given capability. See the individual Capability classes for acceptable capability values.

It is possible to append a wildcard search term .Any to the end of the search term. This method will return true for capabilities that match the term up to the wildcard.

Example: Launcher.App.Any

Parameters:

  • capability – Capability to test against
- (BOOL) hasCapabilities:(NSArray *)capabilities

Test to see if the capabilities array contains a given set of capabilities. See the individual Capability classes for acceptable capability values.

See hasCapability: for a description of the wildcard feature provided by this method.

Parameters:

  • capabilities – Array of capabilities to test against
- (BOOL) hasAnyCapability:(NSArray *)capabilities

Test to see if the capabilities array contains at least one capability in a given set of capabilities. See the individual Capability classes for acceptable capability values.

See hasCapability: for a description of the wildcard feature provided by this method.

Parameters:

  • capabilities – Array of capabilities to test against
- (void) setPairingType:(DeviceServicePairingType)pairingType

Set the type of pairing for the ConnectableDevice services. By default the value will be DeviceServicePairingTypeNone

For WebOSTV’s If pairingType is set to DeviceServicePairingTypeFirstScreen(default), the device will prompt the user to pair when connecting to the ConnectableDevice.

If pairingType is set to DeviceServicePairingTypePinCode, the device will prompt the user to enter a pin to pair when connecting to the ConnectableDevice.

Parameters:

  • pairingType – value to be set for the device service from DeviceServicePairingType

- (id<Launcher >) launcher

- (id<ExternalInputControl >) externalInputControl
Accessor for highest priority Launcher object
- (id<MediaPlayer >) mediaPlayer
Accessor for highest priority ExternalInputControl object
- (id<MediaControl >) mediaControl
Accessor for highest priority MediaPlayer object
- (id<VolumeControl >) volumeControl
Accessor for highest priority MediaControl object
- (id<TVControl >) tvControl
Accessor for highest priority VolumeControl object
- (id<KeyControl >) keyControl
Accessor for highest priority TVControl object
- (id<TextInputControl >) textInputControl
Accessor for highest priority KeyControl object
- (id<MouseControl >) mouseControl
Accessor for highest priority TextInputControl object
- (id<PowerControl >) powerControl
Accessor for highest priority MouseControl object
- (id<ToastControl >) toastControl
Accessor for highest priority PowerControl object
- (id<WebAppLauncher >) webAppLauncher
Accessor for highest priority ToastControl object