Using Timers in Scripts

[waynehead99]

http://www.homeseer.com/support/home...elp/timers.htm

Any ideas?

[enigmatheatre]

http://www.homeseer.com/support/home...elp/timers.htm

Any ideas?

If I was you I would just use the timer devices that Homeseer creates for you. That way the value of the device is the time in seconds so I am sure you could work it from there.

Greig.

[waynehead99]

I thought about that, but I try not to create timer device just because of the crazy amount of traffic they use with hstouch. I will try that and see how it works, but I still think I need to figure out a way to convert the time into decimal.

[enigmatheatre]

I thought about that, but I try not to create timer device just because of the crazy amount of traffic they use with hstouch. I will try that and see how it works, but I still think I need to figure out a way to convert the time into decimal.

But you do not have to create the device as Homeseer will do it for every timer you create and this device is handled in HSTouch so no need to worry. In your device manager page filter the device Type down to "Timers" and you will see what I mean or you are running a very old version of HS.

Greig.

[waynehead99]

Yea I leave that box unchecked. If you look at the communication between the server and the touch clients, you will see an update going every second for every timer, even if you aren't using them in the client.

I don't have the crash issues with hstouch that others do, and I suspect this is part of the problem.

I can let it create this timer and uncheck it and delete the timer devices I don't want to use.

[waynehead99]

Ok, think I have this figured out. Didn't need to use a timer in a device, so I am happy with that.

Here are the results in the logs for testing:

Mar-27 9:10:00 PM Energy Timer Total kWh Hours: 0.04403333333333334

Mar-27 9:10:00 PM Energy Timer Total Hours: 0.733888888888889


Here is the script I mocked up and will build off of. I saw somewhere that you can use timespan in the script and this gave me what I needed... also had to change variables to "decimal" vs "integer" to get the entire value.

Thanks to @mrhappy in this thread:

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=172579

Sub Main(ByVal Parm As Object)

dim Lights as integer = hs.DeviceValue(33)
dim kWh as decimal '= hs.DeviceValue(837)
dim Watts as integer = hs.DeviceValue(836)
Dim ts As TimeSpan = hs.TimerValue("Kitchen Ceiling Lights")
Dim Total_Time as decimal

Total_Time = ts.TotalHours

kWh = (Total_Time*60)/1000

hs.writelog("Energy Timer", "Total Hours: " & ts.TotalHours)
hs.writelog("Energy Timer", "Total kWh Hours: " & kWh)

End Sub