Check if date is a holiday

[sparkman]

Hi all,

This is taking a bit longer than I had anticipated to convert properly. The INI file functions in HS3 don't work the same way as they did in HS2 which required me to create custom functions rather than the ones built in to HS3. I did a rough conversion last year for myself, but as I was packaging things up, I noticed a few major bugs. I'll likely post it in a few days. I'm also looking at using a database to store the data, rather than an INI file, but that will take a bit longer to implement.

Cheers
Al

[sparkman]

I've been wanting to use this too in HS3 don't forfet about our Jewish holidays

Can you provide a list of the important ones or point me to a site that has them listed along with how to calculate them. I did some quick googling and it doesn't look simple

Cheers
Al

[Mark S.]

Al-

Did you ever finish a HS3 version of IsHoliday?

Mark

[TomTom]

There are a few threads about this using events. There may be more but here are two, but folks keep improving on this so do a search to be sure.

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...light=Holidays


http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=178920


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[sparkman]

Al-

Did you ever finish a HS3 version of IsHoliday?

Mark

Hi Mark, I did, but very recently . The functions took a bit longer to re-write than I had anticipated (mainly due to my spaghetti code) and I ended up converting everything to vb.net as well as the original was in vbscript. I'be been running the vb.net version for about a month now, but due to other commitments, had not made the time to package it up and post it here. I'll do that by the end of the weekend.

Cheers
Al

[TomTom]

Al,
Nice! My other house spent a ton of time making events and it does the rudimentary holiday set up fine. I haven't upgraded my events to the methods Randy and others improved on. For my second setup it would be great if I didn't have to do all those events again .
Does the scripting provide other advantages vs the events methods?

thanks

[sparkman]

Al,
Nice! My other house spent a ton of time making events and it does the rudimentary holiday set up fine. I haven't upgraded my events to the methods Randy and others improved on. For my second setup it would be great if I didn't have to do all those events again .
Does the scripting provide other advantages vs the events methods?

thanks

Hi Tom, the main advantage is that you can see them in a calendar view, but the disadvantage is that it does require other scripting calls to do something further with the items that have been added to the calendar.

Cheers
Al

[sparkman]

Hi all,

The HS3 version is finally posted: http://board.homeseer.com/showpost.p...03&postcount=2.

The instructions may seem overwhelming for those who have never used it before, but to get going, simply extract the files in the zip file to the appropriate files in the HomeSeer folder. You can access the main calendar screen by going to http://www.xxx.yyy.zzz/cal.asp on your HS3 server, substituting the ip address (and adding a port if necessary). This allows you to view and edit the calendar, by simply double-clicking in the day that you want to modify.

You do need to use scripts to make use of the information in the calendar. I've included a few scripts as examples. The primary way I use it is to enable/disable alarms on our alarm clocks (Squeezebox Radios). I run events that trigger scripts daily that check if tomorrow is a holiday and if it is, the alarm clocks get disabled. I also check for entries in the calendar called "No School" and will disable the alarm clocks for the kids (not mine )for the days it is found. Feel free to try it out and ask questions as needed.

Cheers
Al

[matt246]

Awesome script, one question is there a way to remove all the homeseer menu bar stuff, I would just like the calendar to be displayed on that page (makes it easier to intergrate into HSTouch.
Thanks

[sparkman]

Awesome script, one question is there a way to remove all the homeseer menu bar stuff, I would just like the calendar to be displayed on that page (makes it easier to intergrate into HSTouch.
Thanks

Thanks and absolutely. All you need to do is edit cal.asp and change this:

	x = hs.GetPageHeader("Calendar" ,"", "", False, False, False, False, False, False)
	response.send x

to:

	'x = hs.GetPageHeader("Calendar" ,"", "", False, False, False, False, False, False)
	'response.send x

Cheers
Al

[matt246]

Thanks for the fix, worked great!

[AutomatedJim]

Linux?

Hi Al,

Does this work on the Linux version of HS3, specifically on a RPi3?

Thanks,

Jim

[sparkman]

Hi Jim, I'm not sure as I've never tested it on linux or heard from others whether it works. I'll check the code tonight to see if there's anything that would prevent it from running on linux. I'm not sure if the asp web pages are supported under linux. Maybe give it a try and let me know what, if any, errors you get.

Cheers
Al


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[fungun]

I'm trying to get the next 7 days into device strings for HSTouch. Wheather there is a reminder or not.
I fixed the "Today" section of your AnnounceEvents script, but the second section is for "Today and beyond".
I thought it would be an easy fix like the Today section.
I made the device, ran the script and the device string changes as it announces the next event, instead of putting them all into one string.
I would like to get 7 devices either telling the event or saying "No Reminders" in the device strings.
Pic to show what I tried.

Thank you,
Tim

[sparkman]

I'm trying to get the next 7 days into device strings for HSTouch. Wheather there is a reminder or not.
I fixed the "Today" section of your AnnounceEvents script, but the second section is for "Today and beyond".
I thought it would be an easy fix like the Today section.
I made the device, ran the script and the device string changes as it announces the next event, instead of putting them all into one string.
I would like to get 7 devices either telling the event or saying "No Reminders" in the device strings.
Pic to show what I tried.

Thank you,
Tim

Hi Tim,

When you set the device string, it overwrites the previous entry. If you want to append, then use something like

hs.SetDeviceString(5678, hs.DeviceString(5678) & " New Text", True)

Hope that helps.
Cheers
Al

PS If you post your actual code, rather than a screen shot, it would be much easier for me to edit it and show the exact changes.