Enable macro at certain day

[Samme]

Hi, I've been thinking and looking at python (and I didn't understand much of it) and other stuff, but I can't figure out how to achieve this. What I want to do is to have the macros as follows:

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
etc...

They should all be executed by the same trigger, but, as you probably already figured out, only on the corresponding day, also, if possible, to set certain macros, lets say, every other week also the macros saturday and sunday should be triggered.

Unfortunantly there's no, as far as I know, calendar plugin, I've looked at the Scheduler and ScheduleGhost plugins. but not yet figured out a good solution. Any help appreciated!

Thanks!

[piert]

I've looked at the Scheduler and ScheduleGhost plugins!

Schedulghost should be able to do the trick. Set several schedules to trigger events for each day when you want some macro to be disbabled or enabled.
Create macro's to which you add actions that either enable or disable the actual macro's that you want to have enabled or disabled.
Move the event that occurs as a result of the scheduleghost schedules towards the macros as needed.

[kalia]

Try a python script. I use the following to trigger an event at startup on weekdays (where %w is 1 [Monday] to 5 [Friday]) and if hour is after 1 PM and before 6 PM.

Note that %W (uppercase) represents week number (you could use that to trigger event every odd or even week number). Check out http://docs.python.org/library/time.html for all the directive descriptions.

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from time import strftime

if 18 > int(strftime("%H")) >= 13 and 6 > int(strftime("%w")) > 0:
    eg.TriggerEvent("test", payload=None, prefix="test", source=eg)

kalia

[Samme]

Hi guys and thanks for helping me out, I've been thinking and trying various things, but I've come to the conclusion that the easiest way would be to generate a trigger at startup.

For example today, generate a trigger something like "day.wednesday" or something like that, could you help me with that?

Thanks alot!

[kalia]

I will start the script for you. You should be able to finish it off.

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from time import strftime

if int(strftime("%w")) == 0:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Sunday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 1:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Monday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 2:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Tuesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 3:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Wednesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)

... and so on

[Samme]

Thanks Kalia! I've completed the script, but I get errors,

"Error compiling script"
"SyntaxError: invalid syntax, line 5"
etc...

...and even if I don't have a "line 5" I still get that error. Weird! Any ideas?

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from time import strftime

if int(strftime("%w")) == 0:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Sunday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 1:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Monday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 2:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Tuesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 3:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Wednesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 4:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Thursday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 5:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Friday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elseif int(strftime("%w")) == 6:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Saturday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
    

[Livin]

Now that I think about it, it is strange there is not a simple plugin for Day / Time trigger.

Maybe someone can convince Pako or Walter to create a streamlined plugin that only monitors/triggers based on Days/Times. The existing Scheduler & SchedGhost are more complicated than I ever needed, and a bit confusing to the average user. Having a simple plugin that logged day and time wold allow users to set a trigger.

[kalia]

Sorry, it should be elif not elseif. I am new to Python.

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from time import strftime

if int(strftime("%w")) == 0:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Sunday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 1:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Monday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 2:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Tuesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 3:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Wednesday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 4:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Thursday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 5:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Friday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)
elif int(strftime("%w")) == 6:
    eg.TriggerEvent("Saturday", payload=None, prefix="day", source=eg)