This is a trivial example showing how to write information to the status columns. In general you will not be writing a fixed string to the status columns. Rather, you will read something from the device itself, such as a MAC address or the filtered printout of executing a console command.
The specifics of what information to retrieve and how to filter and present it are left up to the user.
#!/usr/bin/env python # hello_remote_it.py # sends 'hello remoteit!' to status column A of device import os import sys import subprocess #print output to log sys.stdout = open('pyscriptlog.txt', 'w') print(sys.argv[1:]) #check connectd package def check_connectd(): if(os.path.isfile("/usr/bin/connectd_task_notify") and os.path.isfile("/usr/bin/task_notify.sh")): print("target device running both connectd and weavedconnectd") return("/usr/bin/connectd_task_notify") elif (os.path.isfile("/usr/bin/connectd_task_notify")): print("target device running connectd") return("/usr/bin/connectd_task_notify") elif(os.path.isfile("/usr/bin/task_notify.sh")): print("target device running weavedconnectd") return("/usr/bin/task_notify.sh") else: print("target device has neither...how is that possible?") exit() #necessary for utilities clear = " " message = "Hello remoteit!" finalize_job = "Job Complete" task_id = sys.argv[1] api = sys.argv[2] task_notifier = check_connectd() columns = ['a','b','c','d','e'] #clear status columns for column in columns: subprocess.Popen([task_notifier, column, task_id, api, clear]).wait() #send message to column A subprocess.Popen([task_notifier, "a", task_id, api, message]).wait() #tell connectd job is done subprocess.Popen([task_notifier, "1", task_id, api, finalize_job]).wait() /pre>