EventGhost

Pako, thanks very much for taking the time to explain. It still took me a few minutes to realize what you were describing. The key point you made that I needed to understand is, "But you'll need one extra schedule." Create the periodic schedule, then add a second schedule that enables and disables the first one at specified times. To paraphrase the process for others, like me, who might need help with the concept:
1. Create a periodic schedule (no span for this one unless you want to trigger a start AND stop at the periodic times).
2. From the SchedulGhost macros that were created when the plug-in was installed, copy the "Enable schedule" and "Disable schedule" macros to a new folder.
3. Configure those macros to control your periodic schedule: 4. Now create a second schedule in SchedulGhost. This one will be used to enable and disable the first schedule. In my scenario, where I wanted to start and stop at 0800 and 2300, the Start would be 08:00:00 and the Span would be 15:00:00 (HH:MM:SS). The "Start event suffix" will be used to generate an event to enable the first/periodic schedule at 0800 and the "Stop event suffix" to disable it at 2300, similar to Pako's screen cap:


Thanks again Pako for creating this plug-in and helping me understand its use.

Just a little thing I noticed: In the documentation of schedule Type 3 in the Add schedule function the entry for "first, second, third... (Monday)" is missing.

I'm sorry, but I did not understand it.
Can you please explain it in other words (with regard to my poor English) ?

Thanks, Pako

My English is not better, I guess
Let's show it to you with pictures!

Yes, now I see it.
Of course you're right.
Perhaps I am a little excuses, that it was not me, who wrote this part.
The extended description of the action AddSchedule I have taken over from EventGhost4ever (see post of Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:33 pm).
But the truth is that it was my duty to check it ...
In the next version I'll fix it. Thank you for reporting and visual explanation!

Pako

EDIT: The new (corrected) version 0.1.7 is available for download.

is there a way to view all upcoming tasks added with eg.scheduler.AddTask or eg.scheduler.AddTaskAbsolute ?

They don't seem to show up in SchedulGhost...

Navi wrote:is there a way to view all upcoming tasks added with eg.scheduler.AddTask or eg.scheduler.AddTaskAbsolute ?
They don't seem to show up in SchedulGhost...

It seems, that you're suggesting, that SchedulGhost plugin is a kind of frontend for eg.scheduler.
But it is not so!
The instance eg.scheduler is also used by many other plugins, and there's no reason (it is even undesirable) to SchedulGhost somehow interfering with it.
However, of course there is a way to view scheduled tasks: Pako

Dear Pako, I was just typing the below....

The eg.scheduler is a core functionality of EG itself. The SchedulGhost is a plugin that is using this core functionality (like many many other plugins do if they need to schedule certain things). Therefore you do not see eg.scheduler tasks in plugins unless the author of the plugin decides to make it that way. Normally it is enough if the plugin keeps track of tasks it has scheduled itself (so that it can cancel those if necessary like when the plugin is stopped or deleted).

However, if you would like to see what is currently in the eg.scheduler, I have tried this in a python script/command and in the python shell:
It will give you a list of currently scheduled tasks in the eg.scheduler

BR

krambriw wrote:Dear Pako, I was just typing the below....

Dear Walter,
I see it.
Just four minutes after my post !
It is obvious that we have worked on it at the same time ...
Beautiful coincidence.
And I think that we actually wrote both the same thing, only in different words.

Pako

New version (0.1.9) released.
Added option to abort egg-timer by name.

Pako

Hello Pako,

I use SchedulGhost a lot,it's working nicely and offers a great set of possibilities. However, I miss one little function with this plugin:
I need a possibility to trigger a schedule Immediately, regardless if it is enabled or disabled.
As far as I can see, that's not possible at the moment, the schedule can only be triggered if it is also active.

Try the new version 0.1.10.
Added action Force to run schedule immediately.

Pako

Pako wrote:Try the new version 0.1.10.
Added action Force to run schedule immediately.

Pako

Cool! Thank you very much!

Hi!

I can't seem to find a way to set and start an egg timer via python script - for example i would like to start an egg timer with value of 30 seconds.

Thanks!

Hello TRIROG1,

why do you even want to use the egg timer with a script?
Take a look at "eg.scheduler", I guess that's what you're looking for
http://www.eventghost.org/docs/eg/eg.Scheduler.html