why this weird behaviour of my scene?

[Guest reiniertc]

I've written a small script that turns on the lights at a specific time when my alarm is set to "armed".

The script works, but not as expected.

 

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what happens, is that the lights turn on at every xx:49 and off again at every xx:10.

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

Does anyone see my mistake in the script?

 

 

[Guest reiniertc]

thanks! I wonder how I failed to see that myself. Glad I asked

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I will try your suggestion, seems much easier

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[cag014 731]

I've written a small script that turns on the lights at a specific time when my alarm is set to "armed".

The script works, but not as expected.

 

 

what happens, is that the lights turn on at every xx:49 and off again at every xx:10.

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

Does anyone see my mistake in the script?

It works exactly per your code (49 minutes on and then off for 10 minutes).

To clarify the problem let's assume that the time is now 17:00. According to your code the minutes comparison returns "false"  state,

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so the light turn off till 17:10. This will happen every hour between xx:00 till xx:10

May I suggest to convert the string to simple number - 16:45 = 1645 and 22:49 =2249 in this case you just need to verify that the current time (for example 17:00=1700) is bigger/equal than 1645 and less/equal than 2249. 

See code changes as an example

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Do the same for the second time slot.