Comparing dates...

[reading123 0]

Hi,

I've got a (hopefully!) simple request for help!

I'd like to have a Lua scene triggered when a motion sensor activates, which turns a light on and stores the current date/time in a global variable "LastActivatedTime"

I'd like another Lua scene that activates every 1 minute that checks the date/time stored in the global variable "LastActivatedTime" and, if that time if greater than 15 minutes from now, turns off the light.

The bit I'm confused about is how I should store a date/time in a global variable, and how I can read that date/time out of a global variable and back to a Lua date object...

Thanks in advance for your help!!

[Guest Kuuno]

this script does what you want probably

create global variable wc_endtimer or your own and change it in the script

--[[

%% properties

12 value

445 value

%% globals

--]]

fibaro:debug("start")

local endtime = os.time() + 180 -- +3 minutes

--fibaro:debug(endtime)

--fibaro:debug(endtime)

fibaro:setGlobal("wc_endtimer", endtime) --global variable that is always changed when PIR breached

fibaro:debug("EndTime = " .. fibaro:getGlobalValue("wc_endtimer"))

if (fibaro:countScenes() > 1)

then fibaro:abort()

fibaro:debug("aborting dup. scene")

end --exit after another breach

local startSource = fibaro:getSourceTrigger();

if tonumber(fibaro:getValue(12, "value")) == 0

and

( tonumber(fibaro:getValue(445, "value")) > 0 )

or

startSource["type"] == "other"

then

time = os.time()

fibaro:call(12, "turnOn")

--fibaro:debug("ON")

while time < tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("wc_endtimer")) do

time = os.time()

fibaro:sleep(10000) --the lower number the better precision

fibaro:debug("Time till off = " ..time-fibaro:getGlobalValue("wc_endtimer"))

--fibaro:debug(time)

end

fibaro:call(12, "turnOff");

fibaro:debug("Lights off")

end

[reading123 0]

Perfect! That's exactly what I wanted!

Thanks again!