Dear MvZut, Thanks, it works now. Your suggestion of an extra code line at the beginnein gof the script for an initial value of "0" did the trick. After wachting the counter updating correctly I've commented this line out. Still doens't really explain why the script starts working directly - without ...

Dear Mvzut, Can't get this script working. It will not update the counter and keeps complaining . I've doublechecked everything according to your setup and can't find the problem. It looks like there is no value (in the beginning) and therefore the script is not able to count. Could you please help ...

Strangely enough (language-settings on Dutch) the char " ' " in part of the sentence stating "Leo's gsm is aanwezig" (Leo's cell is at home) did block the output coming through the speakers. Removing the " ' " solved the problem.

Jmleglise, thanks for the tip.

I feel stupid that I didn' think of this check. Will try when I'm at home.

Hello, Verry funny script indeed. But I'm stuck on the "tts" part. I can't get the sentence to be announced. print("talk:"..sentence) ** Sentence is correct as also shown in log os.execute ("/usr/bin/tts "..sentence.." &") ** No reaction or sound os.execute ("/usr/bin/tts Test" ) ** (Bluetooth ...