Support actions with complex arguments in rules

[hobinjk]

Allow the user to specify parameters of the action the rule creates, i.e. a message for a "sendText" action. Ideally will hook into the same action form UI as the Thing splat view.

[benfrancis]

@hobinjk Do we actually have a UI for using a basic action as an output? (Or an event as an input?). I can't seem to get it to work with the Virtual Actions & Events Thing.

[hobinjk]

Oh, interesting! Looks like it recently regressed. #1001 should fix this. After that it will attempt to create the action without specifying parameters.

[hobinjk]

(#805 (comment) on #805 has a mockup of a scalable way to do action inputs)

[vromero]

Just wanted to chime in to propose a corner case for consideration. An hypothetical future virtual adapter that emits color that depends on the hour of the day that can be connected to the color of a light bulb (just like the integration f.lux has philips hue).

[jeffproe]

This sure would be nice to have. I've created my own Thing to control some RGB lights and was hoping to be able to "fade" them on over a period of time based off other events. I was kind of surprised when my Action for this didn't show up when place on the right side of a rule. Is this on the radar to implement?