Entering date into a string

[alphatech]

Spud another great plugin that I found very useful.
Quick question, I'm trying to update a device with the $date variable, unfortunately the $date is giving me the full date, would it be possible to format it as 03/04/2020 instead of Wednesday, March 04 2020?

On the same subject, how would I update a device string by taking the "Last update" field from another device?

Thanks

[spud]

unfortunately this is not something I control at the level plugin, it is handled by HS as any other replacement variable, see https://help.homeseer.com/help/HS3/s...ment_variables

underneath it may use your windows regional settings to format the date string, so you may try to change these to see if they have any effect.

Regarding updating a device string by taking the "Last update" field from another device, I don't think it is possible without any scripting.

[alphatech]

Thank you Spud

[logman]

On the same subject, how would I update a device string by taking the "Last update" field from another device?

You could do it like this using the replacement variables $time and $date:



That will display your device string like this:



That what you're looking for??

--Barry

[logman]

If you know anything about Node-RED and the plugin Big5, I can show you how to format the string to look like any of these using a Date/Time Formatter Node:









--Barry

[alphatech]

If you know anything about Node-RED and the plugin Big5, I can show you how to format the string to look like any of these using a Date/Time Formatter Node:









--Barry

Barry, very nice of you, thank you for your help offering. I wanted the date but the time was the important part of it so I only used the $time field

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[dmiller]

If you know anything about Node-RED and the plugin Big5, I can show you how to format the string to look like any of these using a Date/Time Formatter Node:


--Barry

Could you post what the Big5 Get looks like? Thanks