Scheduler - using eg.scheduler.AddTaskAbsolute

[jenno2001]

I'm no programmer, but I stumble around using the forum and examples to create my domestic Heating Controls with a range of thermostat settings, schedules and overrides.

I've been able to list and cancel any Scheduled events, but I have and an issue trying to setup multiple Scheduled Events or looping an AddTask.....

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eg.scheduler.AddTaskAbsolute(sdsecs, OverrideStartTime, "Name")

where OverrideStartTime is setup in a def that includes

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    eg.TriggerEvent("Text", payload=(starttaskdate,endtaskdate,status,temp))

I have attempted to create some uniqueness by adding a counter to the Text and/or the payload of the Trigger as well as the AddTaskAbsolute "Name" , but the result ends up the same i.e. the payload for all listed events is overwritten by the last entry. I have read in some documentation or code comments that this is expected, but I wonder if there is any alternatives to stop the overwrite?

Like I say I'm not that knowledgeable, but could it be that payload is setup as some global or namespace and if so is there a way to workaround this?

If anyone can spare the time to help with any suggestions that would be much appreciated.
thank you, Jenno

[krambriw]

I think it might be easier to help you if you share the complete python script. Or illustrate with a view from your configuration tree

[kgschlosser]

Why not use the ScheduleGhost plugin instead of trying to do everything from scripts

[jenno2001]

Many thanks for the offer of help, especially being amid the holiday season.
I have used my cobbled together scripts for quite a while and wanted to extend the logic on my heating system, so I was reluctant to start changing to other plugins. When trying to condense the script and post on the forum I started to get other results from scheduling multiple events e.g. unassigned variables.

The good news is I appear to have fixed my issue, rather than pass a single "myArguments"" to the eg.scheduler.AddTaskAbsolute command I passed the arguments individually. This maybe due to my ignorance of how strings/variables are handled, however the end result was the original payloads were retained for each loop.

I'm not sure if I have explained this correctly but I have the result I was looking for.
Once again many thanks for offering to help.
Jenno