Where to look for trouble with running an event?

[Demusman]

I took advice from another thread and created a startup and shutdown timer to monitor when HS starts and stops.
Everything was working fine until I upgraded the PC HS runs on.
Now it takes about 40 seconds to reboot and for some reason the shutdown timer event doesn't run properly.

From the log:

1/23/2023 12:57:57 HomeSeer Shutdown Shutdown Script Completed
1/23/2023 12:57:57 HomeSeer Event Event Trigger "Timers Shutdown Timer"
1/23/2023 12:57:56 HomeSeer Shutdown Running shutdown script ...​

But the event:


And the timers themselves:


The thing is is does run sometimes, that's how I know it takes 40 seconds to reboot but it hasn't been working for a little while now.

And the actual event:

[rmasonjr]

You can turn on debug event logging with:

hs.debugmode=2

I'm not sure if that will help narrow it down or not though...

[randy]

Where are you restarting the timer? The timing is critical because HS stops processing Events almost immediately after shutdown is initiated. I reset the timer at the top of my shutdown script with a scripting statement and immediately call a cleanup Event. My cleanup Event is simple with only a couple of actions.

Imports System.Diagnostics

Sub Main(Parm As Object)

hs.TimerReset("HS Downtime")
hs.triggerevent("ShutdownCleanup")
hs.WriteLog("Shutdown", "(RAPShutdown.vb script) Scripting is OK and is now running RAPShutdown.vb")

'Process.GetProcessesByName("HS4Sentry")(0).Kill()

' Speak - comment the next line if you do not want HomeSeer to speak at shutdown
' hs.Speak("Home-Seer has been shut down", True, "$SONOS$ALERT$")
hs.RunScriptFunc ("Maximum Uptime.vben","LastRun","",True,True)

End Sub
​

[Demusman]

As shown in the picture, I set it to 0 first, then start it in the event.
If you're saying that won't work then neither would the timer itself since that's also in the event.

I just tried the reset in the script and it still didn't work, although the log still says it ran.
Also, running the event manually does work.

[randy]

I’m out of ideas. The method I use works reliably here and I have added the same logic to several other systems for friends. It works for them as well. I reset the timer in the script and start it in the cleanup event. The call in the script is redundant since starting a timer starts it at 0.

[Demusman]

Started noticing a few other things that weren't working right, even posted about the speak.sh trouble where the files attributes weren't set correctly so I reinstalled HS and all is good again.
Thanks for the effort though!
Especially since you were the one who gave me the shutdown timer idea.

[Demusman]

randy Are you running any Linux systems that use the shutdown script?
I thought it was fixed but it's not running events again. Tried on 2 other Linux systems and they don't run events or control devices from the shutdown script either.

[randy]

I only run Windows.