Showing Time of last ON/OFF in HStouch...

[codemonkey]

Is there any way to show the logged status change time on HStouch?

I created rules and status only devices to show which occupants are currently home. All of that works fine, but I would also like to show the time that they got home or left the house.

Regards,
CM

[mwaite]

hs.DeviceLastChange("A1")

[codemonkey]

sorry but I don't know how to use that. I'm really new to HS and haven't figured out everything yet.

CM

[mwaite]

sorry but I don't know how to use that. I'm really new to HS and haven't figured out everything yet.

CM

Sorry about that...

Create a virtual device in HS (for example call it A2), and then you can create an event that triggers when the device (A1) changes and have it run a script like this:

Sub Status(parm as object)
hs.setdevicestring("A2",hs.DeviceLastChange("A1"),true)
End Sub

The script will populate the device A2 with the date/time when your device (A1) is last updated.

[codemonkey]

That worked great!! Thank you so much!

CM

[eole]

Why not using directly [$SCRIPT=&hs.DeviceLastChange("A1")] in HSTouch in Apparence / Text instead of using a script + event ?

[huggy_d1]

Why not using directly [$SCRIPT=&hs.DeviceLastChange("A1")] in HSTouch in Apparence / Text instead of using a script + event ?

There appears to be a known problem with too many [$SCRIPTs] running on HSTouch. I think it can result in memory leaks, which over time bring HS to a halt. By using the script and a ghost device, it eliminates the potential leak.

I like the inline [$SCRIPT=&hs.... approach better myself, but, if it is used on multiple HSTouch clients, it's less efficient as each client forces HS to run the script once a second to keep it up-to-date. The device method does the script once, and can send updates to the client when it changes.

[eole]

There appears to be a known problem with too many [$SCRIPTs] running on HSTouch. I think it can result in memory leaks, which over time bring HS to a halt. By using the script and a ghost device, it eliminates the potential leak.

I used to have this problem, but I thought the problem has gone with the last version. But I still use your method for my main screen. For the others screens, I use [$SCRIPT].