Lua script to set time of day variable really unstable

[XanderF 8]

I'm using a variable to turn on/off garden lights. One lua script loops continuesly and checks the system time every 55 seconds. If it is evening a variable is set to evening and the same for morning. Another lua script reacts one the variable change and turns on/off the garden lights.

It is really straight forward, trivial even. But I can't rely on it because it fails a lot. The problem is that the variable sometimes is not updated. So it stays dark outside.

I'm using 4.042. It worked great on version 3.5x. Any ideas? Where can I find a log?

[boerremk 84]

I use this to set the time period of the day, never missed:

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Now you can use these variable in other scripts.

[XanderF 8]

Thank you for posting your lua script. Mine looks pretty similar. In addition I check sunset hour and sunrise hour with these calls fibaro:getValue(1, "sunsetHour") and fibaro:getValue(1, "sunriseHour"). I noticed I check these values every minute, so I'm going to optimize the lua script. I don't know if these values are retrieved each time, calculated each time or if there are cached per day. Maybe anyone from Fibaro can elaborate on this? But it might be just the cause to why my scripts dies every couple of days.

[XanderF 8]

Boerremk, I'm now using your script, but this evening again the garden lights did not go on. The global variable was at 21:36 still 'morning', while it should have been 'evening' obviously.

 

Is there a log file somewhere I can check? The debug windows does not help. It just displays the last set state, which is 'morning'. The script just seems to die after having run perfectly fine for a couple of days.