subscribe to locationMode changes about ring HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks @dgreif makes sense :)

If anyone wants to monitor alarm modes for their project hopefully this will be useful :)

if (locations.length) {
        const myHome = locations[1]

        myHome.onDeviceDataUpdate.subscribe(({mode}) => {
            if (mode as AlarmMode) {
                switch (mode as AlarmMode) {
                    case 'all':
                        console.log("away")
                        break;
                    case 'some':
                        console.log("home")
                        break;
                    case 'none':
                        console.log("disarmed")
                        break
                    default:
                        console.log("unknown")
                        break;
                }
            }
        });

    }

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Sorry!
As soon as I opened the enhancement I find that on Location you can have onDeviceDataUpdate so perhaps this is what I need!
Will update issue if this works out !

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I've written this to subscribe to LocationMode events and console.log(newMode) is never hit again after changing the alarm status from the ring app or keypad.

const myHome = locations[1]

        console.log(myHome.name)

        myHome.onLocationMode.subscribe((newMode) => {
            console.log(newMode)
        });

Any ideas?

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I've found the following which may help me

https://github.com/daneedk/com.amazon.ring/blob/4fca9947da608f2fe0b8e4f5dc8016d2d8bec4f8/lib/Api.js#L133

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Settled on this but I'm new to typescript!

myHome.onDeviceDataUpdate.subscribe(({mode}) => {
            if (mode as AlarmMode) {
                console.log(mode)
            }
        });

Wondering why mode encompasses both AlarmMode and ThermostatMode.

Is it nicer to make them separate in the API? Or is there something better I can do in my code?

Thanks! And sorry for all the comments on this thread!

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I do think onDeviceDataUpdate is the best option for you to use. Keep in mind this is a fairly generic observable which emits data that matched the RingDeviceData interface. Since this is a generic type, mode can be for an alarm security panel or a thermostat, which is why you get both of those mode types. This interface is blindly passing along the data from Ring, so there isn't any other more specific types available at the momemnt.

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