Re: [mh] Problem with timers

[Matthew W. <mat...@us...>]

Tim Sailer wrote:
>>     if ((state $mode_sleeping eq "nobody") and (state_now $Dining_PIR eq
>> 'motion')){
>>         set_with_timer $Dining_Light 'on', 600;      # Leave at original
>> light setting for 10 minutes
>>         }
>>
>> So what happens is during the day the light is turned on to 100% for ten
>> minutes.
>> After ten minutes the light is atomically turned off.
>> If movement is detected prior to the ten minutes expiring the timer is
>> reloaded again with ten minutes.
> 
> Accoring to the docs, this isn't right.
> 
>      set_with_timer($state, $time, $return_state)
>                    :  Like set, but will return to $return_state after $time.
>                       If $return_state is not specified, it toggles $state.
>                       If $return_state is previous, it returns to the
> previous state.
>                       If set is called before the timer expires, the timer
> will be unset.
> 
> 
> See the last line?

Tim,

I believe that David's code is correct as he is not calling the set method,
but the set_with_timer method.  The set_with_timer method allows multiple
calls, with each call simply overwriting the previous timer, if a previous
timer is still active.  The docs are correct in that a normal set will stop
the timer from running, but this is not what is happening here.

Matt
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