Force plugin function to be loaded before rule validation.

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I have an problem with a plugin I am working on.
The plugin executes a number of is commands when it is started and the result of that commands are saved in an array and used in all the rules.

My problem is that the evaluating of the rules is faster than the result of the is commands performed by the node module.
This causes all the rules to fail at startup but are working a couple of seconds later.

Is it possible to delay the rule verification or force the is commands to be performed earlier? Right now the is commands are performed when the init part of the plugin is loaded.

@tester22 Hi, I am not sure I fully understand your problem, but I can imagine it is similar case I had with the evaluation of a variable expression which depended on a variable provided by some other plugin. So, in this case one has to wait for the “VariableManager” to be ready which is basically the case when all plugins have been loaded. Unfortunately, I did not find a better solution than inserting “Promise.delay(10)” to let the plugin initialization complete in the current execution cycle while the evaluation function gets executed in the next cycle for the first time. See https://github.com/flybysun/pimatic-dewpoint/blob/master/dewpoint.coffee#L59

@mwittig couldn’t get that to work in my plugin, the code is here: https://github.com/tester22/pimatic-lirc/blob/master/lirc.coffee#L21

The problem is that init() is async and takes some time so I always get an error like:
error [pimatic]: Could not parse rule “if state of sonos-vardagsrum is equal to “play” then set lirc remote: Marantz_raw command: KEY_POWER”: Could not find an provider that provides the next action of “set lirc remote: Marantz_raw command: KEY_POWER”.

But the plugin is working as expected as soon as init() is completed.