Add output device to group does not work

[ristopii]

Seems that when i want to add output device to group, then i get error.
Add-DeviceGroupMember : Unable to cast object of type VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.Output' to type 'VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.InputEvent'.

Powershell commands:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-DeviceGroup -DeviceCategory Output -Path "TestOutput"

OutputFolder      : Outputs
OutputGroupFolder : Output groups
Id                : 10EB3506-2A17-44F5-9068-8B6C9E6209DA
LastModified      : 27.03.2020 11:56:23
BuiltIn           : False
Methods           : {}
ServerId          : VideoOS.Platform.ServerId
Name              : TestOutput
DisplayName       : TestOutput
Path              : OutputGroup[10eb3506-2a17-44f5-9068-8b6c9e6209da]
ParentPath        : /OutputGroupFolder
ItemCategory      : Item
Description       : 
ParentItemPath    : System[]

PS C:\Windows\system32> $dstRS | Get-Hardware | get-Output | where {$_.id -eq "8BE4B799-0308-4008-BAA4-6B446266AB94"}

CustomPropertiesFolder     : Custom properties folder
DeviceDriverSettingsFolder : Device settings
Enabled                    : True
Id                         : 8BE4B799-0308-4008-BAA4-6B446266AB94
Channel                    : 0
CreatedDate                : 01.01.0001 00:00:00
LastModified               : 27.03.2020 11:07:59
GisPoint                   : POINT EMPTY
ShortName                  : 
Icon                       : 0
CoverageDirection          : 0
CoverageDepth              : 0
CoverageFieldOfView        : 0
Methods                    : {ChangeSecurityPermissions}
ServerId                   : VideoOS.Platform.ServerId
Name                       : TestOut
DisplayName                : TestOut
Path                       : Output[8be4b799-0308-4008-baa4-6b446266ab94]
ParentPath                 : Hardware[035c0165-c16e-4c30-a6b8-7446bb34b0ce]/OutputFolder
ItemCategory               : Item
Description                : 
ParentItemPath             : Hardware[035c0165-c16e-4c30-a6b8-7446bb34b0ce]

PS C:\Windows\system32> $dstRS | Get-Hardware | get-Output | where {$_.id -eq "8BE4B799-0308-4008-BAA4-6B446266AB94"}  | get-member

TypeName: VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.Output

PS C:\Windows\system32> Add-DeviceGroupMember -DeviceCategory Output -Path "TestOutput" -DeviceId "8BE4B799-0308-4008-BAA4-6B446266AB94"
Add-DeviceGroupMember : Unable to cast object of type 'VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.Output' to type 'VideoOS.Platform.ConfigurationItems.InputEvent'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-DeviceGroupMember -DeviceCategory Output -Path "TestOutput" -Devi ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Add-DeviceGroupMember], InvalidCastException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidCastException,MilestonePSTools.DeviceGroupCommands.AddDeviceGroupMember

[joshooaj]

Thanks for the detailed bug report - I have confirmed I can reproduce it and I found where an invalid cast was done in Add-DeviceGroupMember.

I'll fix this and push an update out by Monday. Meanwhile if you wanted to, you could work around this by using the Configuration API. You would end up using the Get-ConfigurationItem cmdlet probably with the -ChildItems switch, and the Invoke-Method cmdlet.

[joshooaj]

Fixed in v1.0.73 and published to PSGallery