Re: [misterhouse-users] Basic MH Programming Question

[Jason S. <ja...@sh...>]

Just a tip: You might want to use twilight settings and variables and use 
those instead of manually offsetting the times.  These automatically 
adjust for effective Sunset / Sunrise. Look in the MH doc for 
details on its use and the twilight paramter in the mh.ini file.

-J

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Myles Grant wrote:

> Thanks!  That's perfect.
> 
> And thanks, I mixed up the wording on my speak command.  It's actually 
> very light out by the time $Time_Sunrise is true, so I'm keeping the 
> time the same and changing the speak command to: "The sun will be up in 
> one hour.  I am turning off the outside lighting."
> 
> Thanks,
> Myles
> 
> Chris Barrett wrote:
> 
> > Hi Myles,
> >
> > You're after time_greater_than and time_less_than.
> >
> > if (time_now "$Time_Sunrise - 1:00"){
> >        speak "The sun has been up for one hour.  I am turning off the 
> > outside lighting.";
> >        set $Frontdoor_light OFF;
> > }
> >
> > Shouldn't it be '+ 1:00'?  If sunrise is at 5am then at 6am the sun 
> > has been up for an hour.
> >
> > if ($Startup && time_greater_than("$Time_Sunrise + 1:00") && 
> > time_less_than("$Time_Sunset") ) {
> >        set $Frontdoor_light OFF;
> > }
> >
> > BTW Bruce, any idea why we went with these names rather than the more 
> > obvious (IMHO) time_before and time_after?  I don't think I've ever 
> > heard anyone refer to time in terms of greater than or less than.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Myles Grant" <my...@my...>
> > To: <mis...@li...>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:11 PM
> > Subject: [misterhouse-users] Basic MH Programming Question
> >
> >
> >> I've seen a lot of advanced questions lately, but I have a pretty 
> >> basic one.  Most of what MH does for me at this point is turn various 
> >> things on and off around sunrise/sunset.  For example, I use code 
> >> like this:
> >>
> >> if (time_now "$Time_Sunrise - 1:00"){
> >>        speak "The sun has been up for one hour.  I am turning off the 
> >> outside lighting.";
> >>        set $Frontdoor_light OFF;
> >> }
> >>
> >> This morning I noticed that the computer running MH had crashed 
> >> overnight, and therefore did not turn on/off all the lighting it was 
> >> supposed to. After rebooting the machine, I handled all of that 
> >> through the web interface.  I should be able to use $Startup and 
> >> check if the time if greater than "$Time_Sunrise - 1:00" and turn the 
> >> lights OFF if not already off.  I grepped the files in the common 
> >> code directory and searched the docs online, but can't figure out how 
> >> to check if time_now is greater than a certain time.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Myles
> >>
> >>
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