TriggerEvent a variable time

[Diabl0570]

i want a triggerEvent to trigger the event after a variable time ( seconds)
here is my code

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eg.shutD = eg.timeLeft /60
eg.tappen = eg.timeLeft  - 600
eg.TriggerEvent(u'altTap', 30:0)

so i want to do some like this

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eg.TriggerEvent(u'altTap', {eg.tappen})

i try'd a lot of thing, non of them worked
any one how has any idees?

thanks in advanced

[jinxdone]

The "Trigger Event" -action is a bit different from eg.TriggerEvent as it includes an option for a time delay. Actually, the action is defined in EventGhost\plugins\EventGhost\__init__.py and it internally it uses the eg.scheduler.AddTask to delay the triggering of the event.

So, what you are really looking for something to run a command after a set time.

Using eg.Utils.threading.Timer.

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def test():
    eg.TriggerEvent(u'test')

t = eg.Utils.threading.Timer(30.0, test)
t.start()

You can read more about threading.Timer at python docs.


EventGhost also has a custom scheduler thread which is a bit easier to use.

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eg.scheduler.AddTask(5, eg.TriggerEvent, 'hello', 'payload')

The first parameter is the number of seconds after which the command will be run. Notice how the parameters starting from 'hello' are being passed to eg.TriggerEvent

[Diabl0570]

Thanks! this worked great for me:

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eg.scheduler.AddTask(eg.timeLeft, eg.TriggerEvent, 'hello')