Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

[wkrasner]

I am running the following stratightfoward script and the result is a Running script timer.vb :Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
The file extension is VB
Any thoughts

Thanks

Will

Sub Main(ByVal Parms As Object)
'Sub Main(parm as object)

dim GrillTemp1
dim GrillTemp2
dim GT1_Time
dim GT2_Time
dim timeleft
dim CookTime
dim GetCookTime
dim parse1
dim FinalCookTime

GetCookTime=hs.Devicestring(2571)
parse1=InStrRev(GetCookTime,"is")
FinalCookTime=Mid(GetCookTime,parse1+3,len(GetCookTime)-parse1)
CookTime=cdbl(FinalCookTime)*3600
TimeLeft=Cooktime-hs.TimerValue("Cook Time")
hs.speak(cstr(Timeleft))
GrillTemp1=cstr(hs.Devicevalue(2624))
GrillTemp2=FinalCooktime
hs.speak(GrillTemp1)

End Sub

[alexbk66]

Hi Will, my thoughts... I'm amazed how people just throw the piece of their code without any details and expect somebody to analyse every line of code and tell you what's wrong, like mum with little baby... Did you even search the forum? The internet?

https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/de...atmo-in-vb-net

If you have an exception - the answer is obvious - add exception handler....

Sorry if I sound rude, but...

[jon00]

Also is this on Linux, Windows?

Please add your system & O/S details to the forum setup (as shown on the left panel under my forum name).

https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...-in-your-posts

[wkrasner]

Alex and Jon,

Thanks for the feeback. I added the error catching and it was an immense help. Does any one know when calling the value of a timer ie hs.TimerValue("Cook Timer") it restarts the timer? Thanks

Will

[alexbk66]

Thanks for the feeback. I added the error catching and it was an immense help. Does any one know when calling the value of a timer ie hs.TimerValue("Cook Timer") it restarts the timer? Thanks
Will

I hope you weren't offended, I seriously mean that you should always have exception and error handling - you can't expect that it always goes the way you expect.
Also, for parsing I strongly recommend using regex. If you don't have regex experience - https://regex101.com/ is great - you enter your string, your regex and experiment to make it work.

parse1=InStrRev(GetCookTime,"is")
FinalCookTime=Mid(GetCookTime,parse1+3,len(GetCookTime)-parse1)

[alexbk66]

In my plugins I even have - sounds funny - "unhandled exception handler" - beauty of .NET

[wkrasner]

No offense taken, thanks for the regex suggestion