by Roddy | Nov 22, 2021 | Applications, HELM, Lua
Helm has built-in support for both creating and accessing JSON REST APIs. This replaces the older “WebActive” property of the Root Panel, which is now deprecated. Accessing REST APIs To start, add a REST API Device to your panel. You’ll find this in...
by Roddy | Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sorry, Facebook integration has now been removed from Helm.
by Roddy | Jan 23, 2017 | Scripting
Helm 4.4 introduces some new concepts and capabilities for Lua script support. All existing Lua scripts should work unchanged but use of these new powerful features will require Helm 4.4 or later. This post gives an overview of the new features but does not list the...
by conrad | Dec 16, 2015 | Scripting
If you are programming a sequence of actions in Lua you will soon realise that the Helm user interface does not update until the script is finished. That makes sense under most circumstances for reasons of efficiency. However, if you do want to make lights flash on...
by conrad | Oct 19, 2015 | Scripting
The Helm Table control is designed to display JSON data. In this example we show how to enter and retrieve Table data using lua script. So to begin with let’s look at how Tables exchange data with the world. JSON data format for Tables The JSON data has two...
