Corona gets it own container

John,

I made some assumption in the bsc.lua manager and that f its an OUTPUT endpoint you want to handle TOUCH event on your buttons to control them.   What you want is to monitor an OUTPUT endpoint.  In this case you need to do a little more work.     OUTPUT endpoints are things like RELAY, RF -- INPUT endpoints are things like LOBAT on the JeeNode or PIR both are boolean in nature but one does not accept BSC command events.

First we create a helper function to help us out

function newRelayMonitor( param )   
    -- We are not  going to define an onEvent method to handle a button press.
    -- so this MUST be readOnly.
    param.readOnly = true
    local btn = toggle.newToggle(param)
    local f = xap.Filter()
    f:add("xap-header","source",param.xapSource)   
    f:callback(function(frame)
                    btn:setState(frame:isValue("output.state","state","on"))
                end       
                )               
    xap_server:addFilter(f)
end

Now we can create a row of buttons that will not respond to TOUCH event but will correctly update when a XAP event occurs for them.

-- Create a row of buttons using our newRelayMonitor function()   
xpos=40
for i=1,4 do
    newRelayMonitor{
        text = "Relay "..i, size=16,
        default="glossy_button_red.png",
        on = "glossy_button_green.png",
        x = xpos,
        y = display.contentCenterY,
        xapSource="dbzoo.livebox.Controller:relay."..i
    }
    xpos = xpos + 80
end

Hope that helps.

Can you explain a little more about the counter endpoint?  What sort of xap is being sent out for this that you want to display.

Update: added these code fragments in a working demo (see attachment)

Brett