Terminating a Script

[smoothtlk]

Forgive me if this is standard knowledge, but is there a way to cancel a running script without rebooting HS?

I started a script last night that was expecting a voice command and wouldn't time out until it saw one. Unfortunately, I didn't have a microphone attached to my server that was running the script so the script was running indefinately. Looked through script help and didnt see a method.

Any easy solutions?

[Rick Tinker]

Nope - the only way is to set the configuration option to timeout scripts after xx minutes (I think it is 2 minutes by default) and then when you have scripts that run longer, just make sure there is an hs.WaitEvents call in there to reset the timer.

HS 2 will give us full control and we'll be able to allow the termination of scripts.

[Michael McSharry]

Launch your script using mcsMovement then you have full control of run status and ability to abort it if desired.

[smoothtlk]

Thanx guys.
I will look into mcsMovement to see if I can figure that out.

Looking forward to HS2.0!

[stualden]

How do I cancel a script in 2.1?

I want to be able to terminate a script mid-stream, upon the occurence of an event (subject to certain conditions). Could someone point me to some sample code that does this? Thanks.

[Rupp]

Here's a prototype

sub main()

While your process is working

if process is complete
exit sub
end if
loop

[stualden]

I'm sorry

I need to be clearer. Supposed an event has triggered a script, and it is now running. Let's say it normally takes about a half hour to run. (Specifically, I'm envisioning a dawn simulation routine.)

Now, after 10 minutes or so, another event occurs, and I want that event to kill the execution of that script. How would I do that?

Thanks again.

[Rupp]

You can't kill one script from another if HomeSeer launched the scripts. You would need to use Michael's suggestion. This would make a good feature request though.

[stualden]

Thanks - one other thought

Is it possible to change the value of a "global" variable (flag), so that if the script is running in a loop, it can test on the flag and break out of the loop if the flag changes?

That would allow me to do what I need to do. Could a virtual X-10 device be used as a flag, for example?

[Rupp]

Sure that should work just fine.

[kevind]

I thought you could kill a script in 2.x. For example I have a demo script that sometimes I run to show guests what my system can do and many times I just want to kill it at some point cause we've "Heard and seen enough".

[stualden]

I'm using a flag - works okay

For now, I've used a virtual X-10 device as the flag, and within a loop in the script, I'm using hs.IsOn() on that device to test whether to continue the script or to terminate it (exit sub). Seems to work pretty well.