New Flic Twist features for the Hub SDK

[nick-flic]

Really excellent to finally (!) have this released.

It's working well for me.

Thank you!

[Emil]

@mosthated The Android app with this functionality has now been released!

[mosthated]

@Emil

I am debating on if it is even worth asking if there is an expected ETA on the Android release..

[Emil]

@mosthated Sorry forgot to mention that only the iOS app shows this provider right now. It will come later to Android.

[mosthated]

How do I enable these features? I do not see anything related to virtual devices in the flic app, and it looks like the most recent update available is 3.12.3 from 02/11/2025. I don't see any options or settings, either in the play store, or in the app to enable any sort of beta access.

My hub itself is showing v4.4.0. I don't see anything 'Studio' related showing up in providers, or in any settings.

[andreas.lorentsen]

Here's a quick and dirty script I created to test volume control. Might be errors (even dragons) here, use at own risk. Maybe it's useful for someone sometime…I don't know.

const buttonManager = require("buttons");
const flicapp = require('flicapp');
const net = require("net");
const http = require("http");
const client = 'INSERT IP ADRESS HERE'
const port = 4710;

let client = new net.Socket();
var muteCommand = Buffer.from('set /devices/0/outputs/20/Mute/value/true \0', 'utf-8');
var volumeCommand = Buffer.from('set /devices/0/outputs/20/CRMonitorLevelTapered/value/ ');

flicapp.on("actionMessage", function(message) {
		if(message == 'mute') {
			sendToSocket(muteCommand);
		} 
		// handle more (else) cases here 
});

function sendToSocket(msg) {
		client.connect(port, client, function() => {
                client.write(msg);
		})
};

flicapp.on("virtualDeviceUpdate", function(metaData, values) {
	let virtualID = metaData.virtualDeviceId;
        if(values.volume && values.volume != "") {
	     sendToSocket(volumeCommand + values.volume + ' \0');
        }
	// console.log(metaData.virtualDeviceId);
	// console.log(values.volume);
});

[andreas.lorentsen]

Nice. I already got it up and running with a couple of custom volume controls. I use it in my home studio (remote controlling input/output volume on Universal Audio gear, controlling playback and recording when tracking vocals and drums etc), and one for my home surround system as well.

Although…

Can you PLEASE update the existing Spotify Connect "provider"/service to also include the volume (up, down, mute) endpoints as well as the existing ones?

It would require next to no time and effort for you to configure, but it would probably make a world of difference for a lot of the "average" end users of your products.

Think about it…the access token/authentication mechanisms are already there, the Spotify volume endpoints have been up and ready to serve since long before the dinosaurs, and it wouldn't require anything out of the ordinary to add it to your already working Spotify service provider.

Don't get me wrong. The Hub SDK is really great now with the latest updates. I enjoy and love that level of flexibility and all the customization goodies, but it's clearly not for everyone - as the learning curve can be somewhat steep and in my opinion it's a total overkill if you have no prior programming skills or interest, but still want to make use of your Flic hub, Twist, Flic 2 button, Duo or whatever. Yay or nay? Oh and btw, great work. I don't just say that

(And please fix the Flic 2 Universal MIDI functionality, as it's useless at this point).

🤍

Andreas

[Emil]

@sgemmen Thanks! Fixed.

[sgemmen]

@Emil Been playing with this a bit and so far it's pretty great! Thank the team for landing this!

I noticed one thing..

I believe:

flicapp.virtualDeviceUpdateValue("Light", "my_ceiling_light", {hue: 0.6, saturation: 0.7, brightness: 0.8});

should be virtualDeviceUpdateState:

flicapp.virtualDeviceUpdateState("Light", "Virtual_light", {hue: 0.6, saturation: 0.7, brightness: 0.2});

That seems to work for me. UpdateValue results in a "TypeError: not a function".

[sgemmen]

@Emil Exciting update! Looking forward to giving it a go. Will report back. Thank you!