Customised Notification of command result

Kaldek2 months ago

I'm remotely immobilizing vehicles using a latching relay (it works great by the way) and Teltonika devices. My customers want better feedback if the commands to activate or disable the vehicle have worked. The "command result" notification spews out text like the below example which is not helpful for the layman:

result: DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:1 Timeout:2s Speed:25 DOUT3:IGNORED

I want to set up a new Custom Attribute which looks at the commandResult event and translates it so that they can receive a Notification (even if it needs to be an alarm) that says "Vehicle Disabled" or "Vehicle Activated".

I'll take any guidance before I spend too much time tinkering with it.

Anton Tananaev2 months ago

You can use computed attributes to change the result message.

Kaldek2 months ago

Ohhhhhh, I get it. Since "commandResult" is already an existing notification type I can recompute it as it arrives using Computed Attributes.

Smart.

Kaldek2 months ago

This is working, however I am still such a JEXL n00b that I don't know if the "null" at the end is necessary.

result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:Command not executed-NOFIX DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Failed - No Satellite signal" : result == "DOUT1:1 Timeout:2s DOUT2:IGNORED DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Activated" : result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:1 Timeout:2s Speed:25 DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Commanded" : null

Kaldek2 months ago

I realise now that with this Computed attribute for any of the Devices where it is assigned (connected), every check-in which doesn't include a Command Result fills the Traccar log with this:

2025-02-11 07:42:50  WARN: Attribute computation error - org.traccar.handler.ComputedAttributesHandler.computeAttribute:155@1:1 variable 'result' is undefined - Variable (ComputedAttributesHandler:156 < *:168 < BasePositionHandler:34 < ProcessingHandler:172 < MotionHandler:41 < ...)

I feel like this is just perhaps my JEXL syntax being wrong?

Kaldek2 months ago

Fixed it. I did say I was a n00b:

result ? 
  (result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:Command not executed-NOFIX DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Failed - No Satellite signal" :
  result == "DOUT1:1 Timeout:2s DOUT2:IGNORED DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Activated" :
  result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:1 Timeout:2s Speed:25 DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Commanded" : null) 
: null

The initial syntax of result ? only triggers the expression if the decoded AVL data has this attribute.

Cristian2 months ago

Kaldex, What happens if the message is not any of those 3? Is it lost?

Kaldek2 months ago

Yeah I stuffed it up. It needs to be this:

result ? 
  (result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:Command not executed-NOFIX DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Failed - No Satellite signal" :
  result == "DOUT1:1 Timeout:2s DOUT2:IGNORED DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Activated" :
  result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:1 Timeout:2s Speed:25 DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Commanded" : result) 
: null

The above JEXL basically says:

IF there is a result, and the result is one of these three strings, change the result to the new text. Otherwise, leave it as-is.

This one Computed Attribute could be edited to keep adding any needed translations for anything that comes back as a decoded command result (in this case, from Teltonika devices).

Kaldek2 months ago

Here's an example of the updated Computed Attribute to translate another response into better English:

result ? 
  (result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:Command not executed-NOFIX DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Failed - No Satellite signal" :
  result == "DOUT1:1 Timeout:2s DOUT2:IGNORED DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Activated" :
  result == "DOUT1:IGNORED DOUT2:1 Timeout:2s Speed:25 DOUT3:IGNORED" ? "Vehicle Disable Commanded" :
  result == "On Demand Tracking started. Period: 10, Duration: 600" ? "On Demand Tracking Activated for 5 minutes" : result) 
: null