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From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 18:53:04
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> I have this defined in my .mht file > > X10I, A1, Livingroom_Lights, Downstairs_Lights|All_Lights > > and the $Livingroom_Lights do come on based on timed events, such as > sunset. so I'm sm sure it is on the right house/unit code. > > I only get that cm11 error when I say ON, not when I say OFF. > > > $v_Livingroom_Lights = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the livingroom lights > > [ON,OFF]'; > > $v_Livingroom_Lights->tie_items($Livingroom_Lights); Well now, this is interesting ... I tried your code here and found it didn't work here either!! I had inteneded to ignore case in items states, so we would treat ON the same as on, but I can see in Serial_Item.pm we didn't. I find this a bit hard to believe, but apparently we have had this bug for quite a while. Note that this would have worked: set $Living_Lights ON; Because ON is a constant that gets resolved to 'on'. For now, try switching [ON,OFF] to [on,off]. The real fix will be in this weekends new release. Bruce |
From: Timothy S. <spa...@ma...> - 2000-11-11 18:53:02
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here is what I get with the debug turned on: 11/11/00 01:46:24 PM: External command file found: C:/MisterHouse/mh/bin/../house_cmd.txt 11/11/00 01:46:24 PM: Running cmd:turn the livingroom lights off CM11 send data=FF CM11 dim=0 header=00000100 hb=1001 cb=0100 bd=0x04,0x94 checksum=0x98 CM11 send: 0494 .. CM11 data=152 hex=98 CM11 ack ......... CM11 data=85 hex=55 CM11 done 11/11/00 01:49:09 PM: External command file found: C:/MisterHouse/mh/bin/../house_cmd.txt 11/11/00 01:49:09 PM: Running cmd:turn the livingroom lights on CM11 send data=N CM11 error, invalid house code: . data=N -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Spaulding Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:09 PM To: 'mis...@li...' Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] all-in-one, one pass command I have this defined in my .mht file X10I, A1, Livingroom_Lights, Downstairs_Lights|All_Lights and the $Livingroom_Lights do come on based on timed events, such as sunset. so I'm sm sure it is on the right house/unit code. I only get that cm11 error when I say ON, not when I say OFF. I'll try the debug x10 to see what it produces. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Winter [mailto:br...@mi...] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:46 PM To: mis...@li... Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] all-in-one, one pass command > $v_Livingroom_Lights = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the livingroom lights > [ON,OFF]'; > $v_Livingroom_Lights->tie_items($Livingroom_Lights); > When I type > > house turn the livingroom lights on > > I get a message of: > > CM11 error, invalid house code: . data=n How do you define $Livingroom_Lights? You need something like this: $Livingroom_Lights = new X10_Item 'A1'; Or a .mht file with a similar entry. If you think you have that defined correctly, you can try the 'list X10 items' command to see what X10 code mh thinks it is on. And/or you can set the tk (or web) debug parm to X10 and get more errata about what code mh is trying to send. Bruce ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |
From: Bill S. <bs...@vi...> - 2000-11-11 18:50:37
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Harald, > The first is a "Dynascan Corporation Night Sentry". It claims to be a > "solid state timer". It has a time dial on the front (that doesn't rotate, > so it's not the timer), and a master on/off switch. Pushing the timer knob > turns the lights on and off, but that's all I can figure out about the > device; I can't determine a) how to program it, or b) how to set the time. My friend had something similar (we also don't remember the name of the unit). But, it had a three position slider 'on, off, program'. Now, here's the horrible part (and what I suspect yours is). To program the unit you but the unit into 'program mode' and hit the timer knob. 8 hours (or however long you wanted the lights to stay on) you hit the timer knob again to turn the unit off and put the switch back into the 'on' mode (I think). So, obviously, there was no place to actually set a time, it relied on a human to do it at the correct time (wouldn't that be fun for the time change twice every year). One programmed, the 'on' would occur every 24 hours after it was initially set (same with off). Not sure if this helps or not, good luck. Bill |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 18:31:14
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> I haven't seen this file (get_email.summary), but maybe by "new" you are > saying it doesn't exist yet. I just modified get_email to produce a get_email.html file (instead of get_email.summary), using the format you suggested. I also got the CRLF to stick around (they were dropped when I logged the data using logit) and I increased the number of records read/logged to 200. I could make this configurable, but thought maybe we just want it long enough to cover most text messages, but not so long we would log large attatchements. Here is the update: http://misterhouse.net/mh/bin/get_email http://misterhouse.net/mh/lib/handy_net_utilities.pl Bruce |
From: Timothy S. <spa...@ma...> - 2000-11-11 18:08:58
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I have this defined in my .mht file X10I, A1, Livingroom_Lights, Downstairs_Lights|All_Lights and the $Livingroom_Lights do come on based on timed events, such as sunset. so I'm sm sure it is on the right house/unit code. I only get that cm11 error when I say ON, not when I say OFF. I'll try the debug x10 to see what it produces. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Winter [mailto:br...@mi...] Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:46 PM To: mis...@li... Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] all-in-one, one pass command > $v_Livingroom_Lights = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the livingroom lights > [ON,OFF]'; > $v_Livingroom_Lights->tie_items($Livingroom_Lights); > When I type > > house turn the livingroom lights on > > I get a message of: > > CM11 error, invalid house code: . data=n How do you define $Livingroom_Lights? You need something like this: $Livingroom_Lights = new X10_Item 'A1'; Or a .mht file with a similar entry. If you think you have that defined correctly, you can try the 'list X10 items' command to see what X10 code mh thinks it is on. And/or you can set the tk (or web) debug parm to X10 and get more errata about what code mh is trying to send. Bruce ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 17:49:48
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> Well that resolved the problems. other than the previously mentioned > prototype message of: > > Prototype mismatch: sub Win32::DriveInfo::DrivesInUse vs () at D:/Program > Files/Home I don't know what the problem here is. I don't get that msg with mh.bat or mh.exe on any of my boxes. Anyone else see that? The only place we currently use that is in the 'show disk space' commands in computer_data.pl Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 17:45:41
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> $v_Livingroom_Lights = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the livingroom lights > [ON,OFF]'; > $v_Livingroom_Lights->tie_items($Livingroom_Lights); > When I type > > house turn the livingroom lights on > > I get a message of: > > CM11 error, invalid house code: . data=n How do you define $Livingroom_Lights? You need something like this: $Livingroom_Lights = new X10_Item 'A1'; Or a .mht file with a similar entry. If you think you have that defined correctly, you can try the 'list X10 items' command to see what X10 code mh thinks it is on. And/or you can set the tk (or web) debug parm to X10 and get more errata about what code mh is trying to send. Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 17:41:20
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> I have a Win98SE box that is running only MH. After running for a day or > so the TTS engine has long pauses between words. I added additional RAM > for a total of 96MB, but it does not correct the problem. Are you running perl 5.6? If so, have you run something like taskman to see if you are experiencing the same memory leak that I (but not everyone) is seeing? mh memory use goes up by 20 meg a few times a day. If so, you might try running mh.exe (compiled with perl 5.005) or downloading 5.005 instead. I'm hopeing that a new release (5.8?) of perl will eventually fix that memory leak problem. > What I would like to > do is automatically schedule the reboot. Is there a way within > MH to exit There is a 'reboot the computer' command in mh_control that should work with win98. So you could do this: run_voice_cmd 'Reboot the computer' if $New_Day; > and not generate the "Finished" window? Can MH be started from > autoexec.bat? "C:/mh/bin/mh.bat" in AE.bat does not do this because perl > does not run from DOS. As Ernie said, simply a win98 shortcut to mh.bat to your win98 startup folder. Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 17:41:15
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> I didn't know that would work as a string matching time_now. > I'll give that > a shot! > > > my $randval = rand 60 if $New_Day; > > set $light ON if time_now "$Time_Sunset_Twilight + $randval"; Let me amend this slightly. time_now (and other mh time commands) allow for +- time offsets, but the offset must be in hour:minute format. So to get a random offset between 0 and 60 minutes, this is what you will want to try: my $randval = rand 60 if $New_Day; set $light ON if time_now "$Time_Sunset_Twilight + 0:$randval"; or this my $randval = rand 1 if $New_Day; set $light ON if time_now "$Time_Sunset_Twilight + $randval"; Bruce |
From: Timothy S. <spa...@ma...> - 2000-11-11 17:24:53
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ok, I am trying some of this now. I have the following $v_Livingroom_Lights = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the livingroom lights [ON,OFF]'; $v_Livingroom_Lights->tie_items($Livingroom_Lights); #set $Livingroom_Lights $state if $state = said $v_Livingroom_Lights; (the above are both there and one is commented out so that I can change the command quickly to see which one worked better for the problem below) When I type house turn the livingroom lights on I get a message of: CM11 error, invalid house code: . data=n if I do: house turn the livingroom lights off I get no error, however, it still doesn't turn the lights off. any thoughts? both ways of setting $Livingroom_Lights on give the same result. any idea why this is happening? Thanks Tim -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Winter [mailto:br...@mi...] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:34 PM To: mis...@li... Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] all-in-one, one pass command > = new voice_cmd("Turn the [Livingroom, Downstairs, All, MasterBedroom, > Upstairs, Masterroom, Staircase, MasterBedroomVanity, > DownstairsBathroom, Frontporch, Outside, Foyer] lights [ON, OFF]"); > > After this command has been spoken, I want to set the approiate *_Lights > to $state with something like the following: > > set $<location>_Lights $state; > > so how do I get 2 variables like $state out of the if said > $v_Lights_Command test? Sorry, we can't return multiples states from one command. I've thought about it, but it would be a bit messy. For now, you are stuck with something like this: $v1 = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the [bedroom,familyroom,outside] light on'; $v2 = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the [bedroom,familyroom,outside] light off'; eval "set \$${state}_light ON" if $state = said $v1; eval "set \$${state}_light OFF" if $state = said $v2; Note, we have to use eval here, because we have an on-the-fly object. A cleaner approach is like this: $vll = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the bedroom light [ON,OFF]'; $vl1-> tie_items($bedroom_light); $vl2 = new Voice_Cmd 'Turn the outside light [ON,OFF]'; $vl2-> tie_items($outside_light); Bruce ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |
From: doug <do...@do...> - 2000-11-11 15:36:24
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I haven't seen this file (get_email.summary), but maybe by "new" you are saying it doesn't exist yet. Right now my mail looks like (built from get_email.scan): Date: XXXXXX<br> To: XXXX<br> From: XXXXX<br> Subject: XXXXX<br> <blockquote> Body: XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX </blockquote> <p> Actually, if the get_email.summary file was just like get_email.scan except with CRs (or CRLF not sure which) in the Body, that would work. It is not that difficult to replace the CRs via ASP (or JS) and format the page anyway you want. The prob I am encountering is that the CRs aren't even there. But obviously a fully formatted include file would be much simplier, but less configurable. I guess if the get_email.summary file were created at the code level (ie not bin or lib) then a user could edit to taste. Needs to be a configurable line limit though for long msgs. Also, this file should be deleted when the get_email script detects that previous mail has been removed from server. --doug <(©¿©)> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Winter" <br...@mi...> To: <mis...@li...> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 8:53 PM Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] Saving email data > > I'm trying to create a web page that displays the mail that MH > > checks for. > > Got to thinking about this a bit more. One thing we could do is have the > new get_email .summary file have html tags, so then all we would have to do > is add a record like this to an html file: > > <!--#include file="/data/get_email.summary"--> > > Do you have some ideas on how to format the get_email summary? > > Bruce > > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > |
From: Ernie O. <eo...@sh...> - 2000-11-11 14:04:06
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I just have a shortcut to mh.exe in my startup folder. For rebooting automatically, check out winfiles.com for scheduling apps that specialize in reboots. Use TweakUI98 to get the workstation to login in automatically once it does come up. http://www.shokk.com ICQ-17933910 Ernie "Shokk" Oporto > -----Original Message----- > From: mis...@li... > [mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of > Thomas Kotowski > Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 9:34 AM > To: mis...@li... > Subject: [misterhouse-users] Reboot MH/Win98 > > > I have a Win98SE box that is running only MH. After running for a day or > so the TTS engine has long pauses between words. I added additional RAM > for a total of 96MB, but it does not correct the problem. The problem is > only prevented by rebooting windows every 24 hours. What I would like to > do is automatically schedule the reboot. Is there a way within > MH to exit > and not generate the "Finished" window? Can MH be started from > autoexec.bat? "C:/mh/bin/mh.bat" in AE.bat does not do this because perl > does not run from DOS. > > > Regards, > Tom > > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: > http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > |
From: Thomas K. <tko...@ea...> - 2000-11-11 11:34:48
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I have a Win98SE box that is running only MH. After running for a day or so the TTS engine has long pauses between words. I added additional RAM for a total of 96MB, but it does not correct the problem. The problem is only prevented by rebooting windows every 24 hours. What I would like to do is automatically schedule the reboot. Is there a way within MH to exit and not generate the "Finished" window? Can MH be started from autoexec.bat? "C:/mh/bin/mh.bat" in AE.bat does not do this because perl does not run from DOS. Regards, Tom |
From: Mike D. <md...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 11:05:13
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>Has anyone run across any cheap way to monitor all circuits in a breaker >panel so you can tell what is using power and how much? Not that I've ever heard of. I think you're talking Big Bucks and a lot of extra circuitry to achieve individual circuit monitoring. You could probably devise some sort on non-contact inductive sensor, much like the clamp-on current meters available for testing. However, there would have to be circuitry (for each house circuit) to convert the sensor output to meaningful data. And I'd guess that all of this stuff would have to be installed in its own electrical box, not in the breaker box (probably wouldn't fit, anyway). My opinion? Huge project, huge expense. (But what do I know?) Mike ------ Mike Dodd - Montpelier, VA Modeling Virginian Railway, 1956 http://www.mindspring.com/~mdodd/vgn_main.htm |
From: chris w. <cw...@xm...> - 2000-11-11 06:10:10
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Jon, There is a fascinating link at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~echeung/automa/power.htm that covers a cheap (not UL listed:-) approach to this problem. I have also seen a more expensive approach that is offered by cutler hammer, intended for integration at the load center. (cutler also appears to have circuit breakers that can be remote controlled, but since i have a square-d load center, i don't think they do me any good.) look at http://www.basshome.com/completesystempages.cfm?cfid=117289&cftoken=22761943&theSystem=42#Advanced Power Managers and scroll down to "advanced power managers" More info is available on the cutler hammer page at: http://www.ch.cutler-hammer.com/apc/powersen.html I don't have any experience with either of these, but have had my eye on both approaches (the current preferred approach would probably utilize the cutler hammer power sensor/magnet and a home grown monitor). Please follow up post to the list and let us know what you decided to do (and how it worked). Chris. Jon Brockmeier wrote: > > Has anyone run across any cheap way to monitor all circuits in a breaker > panel so you can tell what is using power and how much? > > Is something like this UL approved? > > Jon Brockmeier > > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |
From: Ernie O. <eo...@sh...> - 2000-11-11 05:02:24
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I didn't know that would work as a string matching time_now. I'll give that a shot! > my $randval = rand 60 if $New_Day; > set $light ON if time_now "$Time_Sunset_Twilight + $randval"; |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 03:48:20
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> Can you then have something where we can test the value of ($Dark + 5 > minutes) or ($Dark + 1 hour)? I was thinking $Dark would simply be a 1/0 flag. It sounds like what you want would be something like this: > My intention is to have a random value selected each morning and then when > it's time to turn the lights on, they are turned on at $Time_Sunset + > $randval to make it seem a little less non-human. my $randval = rand 60 if $New_Day; set $light ON if time_now "$Time_Sunset_Twilight + $randval"; I was also thinking of implementing an earlier suggestion of creating a new Time_Item object, so we could do something like this: $time_dark = new Time_Item $Time_Sunset_Twilight, random => 60; set $light ON if time_now $time_dark; Bruce |
From: Jon B. <br...@br...> - 2000-11-11 03:33:27
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Has anyone run across any cheap way to monitor all circuits in a breaker panel so you can tell what is using power and how much? Is something like this UL approved? Jon Brockmeier |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 02:53:39
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> I'm trying to create a web page that displays the mail that MH > checks for. Got to thinking about this a bit more. One thing we could do is have the new get_email .summary file have html tags, so then all we would have to do is add a record like this to an html file: <!--#include file="/data/get_email.summary"--> Do you have some ideas on how to format the get_email summary? Bruce |
From: Ernie O. <eo...@sh...> - 2000-11-11 02:51:31
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Can you then have something where we can test the value of ($Dark + 5 minutes) or ($Dark + 1 hour)? My intention is to have a random value selected each morning and then when it's time to turn the lights on, they are turned on at $Time_Sunset + $randval to make it seem a little less non-human. http://www.shokk.com ICQ-17933910 Ernie "Shokk" Oporto > -----Original Message----- > From: mis...@li... > [mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Bruce > Winter > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 8:38 PM > To: mis...@li... > Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] Time_Now after sunset? > > > > I am trying to test if it is dark out when an event triggers. I am using > > ($Time_Now > $Time_Sunset) && ($Time_Now > "12:00PM")) since 12PM > > evaluates as greater than $Time_Sunset. Is there any built in method for > > determining if it is dark out? > > You can not use > or < with strings (numbers only). We do, however, have > time_less_than/time_greater_than mh functions that work with time strings. > This should work: > > if (time_less_than $Time_Sunrise_Twilight or > time_greater_than $Time_Sunset_Twilight) { ... > > Just got to thinking this might be of general interest, so I just added a > $Dark flag that will be true according to the above test. That will be in > this weekends release. There is also a $Time_Of_Day flag (morning, > afternoon, evening, night) and $Weekday and $Weekend flags. > > Bruce > > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: > http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 01:38:18
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> Thank you for sharing your amazing program, ran it up on my linux box > and it smacked me in the face like halibut handled by a jealous fishwife Your welcome. I just added your comment to the Testimonial page ... first jealous fishwife reference we have gotten :) > Can you recommend an I/O board that would work well for this and leave > me enough channels for a bunch more stuff in case i get carried away ? Some of the X10 combo interfaces (HomeBase, HomeVision) have digital/analog IO, but I don't know how expandable they are. The weeder kits ( http://www.weedtech.com ) are expandable (just daisy chain them together), but the digital IO's don't have built in relays, so for many things you will also need a relay board. I built a relay board from a Jameco.com kit. Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 01:38:18
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> I seem only to be able to use the Reload Code function once before it > stops working. The second attempt produces a "No response resulted from > the last command" message. I have to kill mh and restart in order to load > my new code. > > I remember seeing a report on this previously. I am on release 2.32 on > RedHat 6.2 Right you are. This should have been fixed in the 2.32 release. It is fixed in the mh_control.pl member, so I bet you still have the old member in your code_dir. With 2.32, we put common files (like mh_control.pl) in the mh/code/common dir, so you should simply be able to delete it from your code_dir. In fact, you will likely want to delete all the members that are now in mh/code/common from your code_dir. Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 01:38:18
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> I noticed that the Bruce's sample internet_mail.pl script deletes the > get_email.scan file after it checks for commands. Since I'm using Web > control, email commands are not needed, so I remarked out the > scan_subjects subroutine call. > > A problem I ran into was that the bin/get_email script never erases the > get_email.scan file and keeps adding to it. So I inserted the > following line > right after line 107 in get_email: > > unlink("$config_parms{data_dir}/get_email.scan"); > > Seems to work, but I'm unsure about the unlink command and what it does. > (PERL dummy speaking) If this is right, I think it should be added to the > distribution file. unlink $file is just the perl way of deleting a file. I just changed get_mail, but rather than changing how .scan is processed, I change it to create a parallel .summary file. That file will be deleted only after email has been read, using the unlink fix on line 107 that you proposed. That way we don't have to change internet_mail.pl. > This all seems to work. The only thing that bothers me a little is the > $$msgptr{body}[$cnt] variable has the CRs stripped out. Anyway to > leave them in? I just checked the net_mail_summary function in handy_net_utilities and it looks like we don't strip out CRs. If Net::POP3 is doing that, I think we are stuck without them. Bruce |
From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-11-11 01:38:18
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> I am trying to test if it is dark out when an event triggers. I am using > ($Time_Now > $Time_Sunset) && ($Time_Now > "12:00PM")) since 12PM > evaluates as greater than $Time_Sunset. Is there any built in method for > determining if it is dark out? You can not use > or < with strings (numbers only). We do, however, have time_less_than/time_greater_than mh functions that work with time strings. This should work: if (time_less_than $Time_Sunrise_Twilight or time_greater_than $Time_Sunset_Twilight) { ... Just got to thinking this might be of general interest, so I just added a $Dark flag that will be true according to the above test. That will be in this weekends release. There is also a $Time_Of_Day flag (morning, afternoon, evening, night) and $Weekday and $Weekend flags. Bruce |
From: Kip G. <ki...@st...> - 2000-11-10 21:18:26
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I am trying to test if it is dark out when an event triggers. I am using ($Time_Now > $Time_Sunset) && ($Time_Now > "12:00PM")) since 12PM evaluates as greater than $Time_Sunset. Is there any built in method for determining if it is dark out? -Kip |