[Suggestion] Create/save custom home teleports

[TheIceBadger]

The guild I am in has a sister guild, and it would be very handy to be able to save homes or manually point to homes to teleport to.

The reason I am putting this suggestion in here with Plumber was when testing, I thought I could probably just hook into the home teleport button you have there, just tell it to go somewhere else.

So in Housing_ActionButton.lua I added the function

function Housing.SetCustomTeleportLocation(neighborhoodGUID, houseGUID, plotID)
    if not TeleportHomeButtons.Custom then
        TeleportHomeButtons.Custom = CreateTeleportHomeButton(5);
    end
    TeleportHomeButtons.Custom:SetAction_TeleportHome(neighborhoodGUID, houseGUID, plotID);
end

function Housing.GetCustomTeleportMacro()
    return "/click PLMR_HOME5";
end

_G.PlumberGlobals.Housing = Housing;

and expose it globally.

Grab the housing info you are standing in

/dump C_Housing.GetCurrentHouseInfo()

Then a regular Macro can do this

/run PlumberGlobals.Housing.SetCustomTeleportLocation("neighborhoodGUID", "houseGUID", plotID)
/click PLMR_HOME5

and teleport you to whatever place you want!
(I made this change locally, and it works like a charm!)

Is this the right way to do this, no clue!

Im sure a much cleaner way would be to have some form of "Save" button in the Housing menu, where if you stand in a plot it could save it.
Then the current housing icon from Plumber could be a drawer style button containing your saved locations, maybe it could also have recently visited locations too if you forgot to save?

Might be out of scope, but I guarantee that my guildies and those in our sister guild would love this to make it easier to zoom back and forth without having to have a guild leader or something with 400 new "friends". Even if they had to do it manually with a macro like I did, a macro like that does have the perk of being super easy to share with people to come visit your home!

[TheIceBadger]

I will note, a friend of mine tried this and only get "Permission Denied" and I have no idea why that would be, Im just gonna assume the devs here know what they are doing compared to my random hack jobs...

[Peterodox]

This is an interesting idea, making revisiting the same house handy.

I might steal it 😆

AFAIK, "Permission Denied" usually means... permission denied because of the homeowner's permission setting.

[TheIceBadger]

I think having a way to manually enter an "address" like the macro or maybe some more elegant sharing string would be awesome for events. Think someone being able to share on social media that they are having a party and they can share a macro or an "address" string to let people teleport there without needing to add a thousand people to their bnet friends list.

But also have a way to maybe save and keep some locations in a drawer type button like the ones Plumber also have, might fit really well.

The "permission denied" is a bit odd, because I can go to their place, and a common friend's place, the two of them are in the same guild even while I am not, I can go to all 3 of our plots, while my friend just gets "permission denied" on them, so there might be some strange thing going on here.

[Peterodox]

Hi! Maybe give this addon a try: Multiple House Teleports

[Sponsorn]

Sorry to hijack the thread, I found out that houseGUID is updated when you close the game, and afaik, it goes between 1-9, which can be iterated through by letting the user just press the macro button in above addon multiple times until it finds the right one, totally what blizzard intended, this will be blocked most likely.

houseGUID is also updated by just visiting the same plot the teleport goes to, "my home" is automatically picked up when logging in since it is available in API

I have not seen a number above 9 yet, let me know if the range should be higher

Version 1.1.2 contains above logic
Version 1.1.2 also has updated license to be even more permitting than SA, so feel free to copy and remix if you want and
added you @TheIceBadger to credit list, which should have been done from the beginning, didn't think I would work on this addon after v1.0.0, genuinely sorry about that!