Need a little scripting help

[mvrekum 2]

Hi,

I need a little scripting help. I have a scene that has to run for a variable number of minutes.

I have the variables "StartTime", "RunTime" and "EndTime"

StartTime is the current time

RunTime is a global variable with the amount of minutes given by another scene.

EndTime is StartTime + RunTime

I compare the current time with EndTime to stop the script.

The problems start when you go over the hour, like StartTime = "1155" and RunTime = "10" then the EndTime would be "1165" it should be "1205"

The same happens at midnight with the hours 23xx to 00xx.

Can anyone help with a simple solution?

[StarkJohan 6]

I'm thinking that a simple increment in a loop would do the trick. No need to "add" times.

[mvrekum 2]

Thanks but the script needs to run based on elapsed time, not based on a counter.

Bur I think I've got it:

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Now I only have to compare the endtime with the current time to stop the scene.

If EndTime = CurrentTime then abort.

[robmac 173]

Thanks but the script needs to run based on elapsed time, not based on a counter.

Bur I think I've got it:

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Now I only have to compare the endtime with the current time to stop the scene.

If EndTime = CurrentTime then abort.

if you just use os.time() to retrieve the current number of seconds since epoch you will avoid the issue.

work in seconds in all calcs and hold start and end as seconds since epoch. you can just use standard arithmetic to add by converting "Time" to number of seconds.

then you can compare EndTime <= CurrentTime to end the code

if you just want to pause code for a number of seconds then do an action consider just using fibaro:sleep(1000*60*Time) which will pause the code for Time minutes i.e. until EndTime if code starts at start time

[mvrekum 2]

Thanks robmac, I'll try that.