Show a TimeStamp on HS Touch...

[codemonkey]

Hey all, I have a couple of events that I regularly trigger from HS Touch. I would really like to show the time that the event was triggered. What is the best was to do this?

Sorry if this has already been covered. I did search but I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Regards,
Tony

[Pete]

Guessing here that you want to see that on your HSTouch screen.

You can put a script on the touchscreen that tells you the last time the event was triggered.

If the event changes a variable you can do the same with a script that tells you when the variable changed last.

[mrhappy]

I think it came up recently that there is no native way of getting the time a specific event was triggered.

One way (depending on how many events you have) is to have a virtual device per event and in one of the actions to that event do an immediate script command something like

&hs.setdevicestring("W98", Now(), True)

Then in HSTouch you status track this device on your screen.

[codemonkey]

Guessing here that you want to see that on your HSTouch screen.

You can put a script on the touchscreen that tells you the last time the event was triggered.

If the event changes a variable you can do the same with a script that tells you when the variable changed last.

Yes that is exactly what I want to do.

Sorry, but I can find no method of putting the time the event was triggered. This is exactly what I want. How do i do this?

[codemonkey]

MrHappy, that will do, thank you!!! Is there any way to just get the time?

[mrhappy]

Replace Now() with Time()

See here for some of the formatting types you could use http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vb...tions.asp#date

[codemonkey]

Thank you!!!!
Have a great day.

CM

[codemonkey]

Mr.Happy, sorry, am i missing something? I cant find an action to run an immediate script in my events. I tried making a timestamp.txt script in my scripts folder and running that, but it didn't go.

Thank you for your help.

CM

[mrhappy]

When you add an action click run script, then switch to advanced view and put that bit of code in the box that says "OR Script Statement: ie: &hs.speak "hello"". You do need to create a virtual device first and change that code in the script to your new device.

[codemonkey]

Ah, totally missed that button. Thank you!!!!

Everything is working perfectly now.

Have a great day.