How to quickly catch errors?

[RYoder97]

Really am loving this library, but I can't seem to figure out how to quickly tell whether or not there is an error with a connection.

I'm trying to make a very basic GUI that's either web based or Tkinter based, and I want to be able to quickly catch an error with connections if there is one.

Here is my current code for a connection, with a version number (3.2) that is PURPOSELY wrong:

tinytuya.set_debug(True)


device = tinytuya.Device("id","ip","key")
#Version should be 3.5...
device.set_version(3.2) 
device.set_socketRetryLimit(1)
device.set_socketNODELAY(True)
device.set_socketTimeout(1)
device.set_socketRetryDelay(1)
device.set_socketPersistent(True)

print(device.status())

It takes a good minute and a half maybe 2 minutes still until device.status() returns the error.

I purposely set all the socket-related functions to the lowest number that made sense. Am I missing a function to make this run faster and get to a conclusion of good/bad sooner?

[jasonacox]

Hi @RYoder97 , try turning on debug and setting the timeout settings via initialization:

import tinytuya

tinytuya.set_debug(True)

device = tinytuya.Device("id", "x.x.x.x", "key", version="3.3",
     connection_timeout=1, connection_retry_limit=0, connection_retry_delay=0)

print(device.status())

[RYoder97]

Thank you! This definitely sped things up for error reporting purposes. Can the socket be made persistent using an argument as well?

[uzlonewolf]

Yes, just add persist=True.

[RYoder97]

Awesome thanks guys!