[FEATURE] Actions from other plugins about physicalbutton HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi, thank you very much :)

I like the idea to have action of other plugins included in my plugin! I'll have a look at if and how this can be achieved!

Cheers,
Sam

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I'm sorry but I cannot find out how to get the available commands from other plugins 😅
If someone knows how to achieve this, I would be happy to get a hint on that or a PR :)

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I'll see if there is any information on the weekend.

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Hi @LuxuSam,
if the plugin author doesn't provide a public api (web or internal) to execute tasks or read data you can directly get the plugin implementation and call the function directly...but this is a risky thing.

I wrote a helper function in my PrintJobHistory-Plugin that delivers the 3rd party plugin instance. On that instance you can call the needed function.
See https://github.com/OllisGit/OctoPrint-PrintJobHistory/blob/1.16.0/octoprint_PrintJobHistory/__init__.py#L291-L332

Usage:

pluginInfo = self._getPluginInformation({ "key": "costestimation", "minVersion": "3.4.0"})
self._costEstimationPluginImplementationState = pluginInfo[0]
self._costEstimationPluginImplementation = pluginInfo[1]

..do some state checks (installed/disabled)

self._costEstimationPluginImplementation.getCostData()

If the 3rd party plugin is willing to provide an api, it should use the "helpers-feature"
https://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/plugins/helpers.html#helpers

Or depending of the "usecase" it could fire an custom-event and a listener-plugin can react in "realtime" instead of polling the information from the plugin.
See
https://github.com/OllisGit/OctoPrint-DisplayLayerProgress#events

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Hi @OllisGit,

Thank you for the clarification, provided documentation, and your code examples :D

I'll look into it in more detail as soon as I'll have time to work on the plugin again! Exams are coming up.

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For the original request, PSU Control supports CLI commands so you could use system and the command /home/pi/oprint/bin/octoprint plugins psucontrol:toggle I think.

https://github.com/kantlivelong/OctoPrint-PSUControl/wiki/CLI

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There are helper functions available.

https://github.com/kantlivelong/OctoPrint-PSUControl/wiki/Developers

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