Persistent (global)data save Time()

[Freemann]

I'm struggeling a bit with the following case;
I want to have the last time a device is switch ON and in most case the last ON time is not equal to the lastUpdate property.
So I decided to save the Time() to an (global)data variable, but that isn't working.
Look like dzVents is not saving the Time() object when doing something like:
domoticz.globalData.BadkamerLastMotionOn = Time()
or
domoticz.data.BadkamerLastMotionOn = Time()

both variables are define in OR global_data.lua OR in the script itself.

Is this a known "bug" and/or has somebody an idea how to save the last ON time to persistent storage?

[dannybloe]

Don't save the Time object but just the raw value. If you use historical=true with persistence you automatic get a time stamp on your data. So, define your persistent variable with history = true and maxItems = 1 and simply store the state value in there. Then you can easily read the time stamp of the current value. Check the documentation about historical data.

[Freemann]

So easy... (zo simple)

Hero (HELD)!!

[waaren]

I want to have the last time a device is switch ON and in most case the last ON time is not equal to the lastUpdate property.
So I decided to save the Time() to an (global)data variable.

Look like dzVents is not saving the Time() object when doing something like:
domoticz.globalData.BadkamerLastMotionOn = Time()
or
domoticz.data.BadkamerLastMotionOn = Time()

... has somebody an idea how to save the last ON time to persistent storage?

Just for completeness; dzVents is capable of storing the time object in persistent storage.
see example code and resulting datafile

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-- timeTest.lua 

return {
    on      =   {    devices         =   { "timeTriggerDevice"}},

    data    =   {   currentTimeTable = { initial = "" },
                    nextTimeTable    = { initial = "" },
                    nextTimeValue    = { initial = "" }},

    execute = function(dz, trigger)
            dz.data.currentTimeTable = os.date('*t')   -- Now as table
            dz.data.nextTimeTable = os.date("*t",os.time(dz.data.currentTime)+3600)  -- now + 1 hour as table
            dz.data.nextTimeValue = os.date("%c",os.time(dz.data.currentTime))  -- now as string
    end
}

__data_timeTest.lua

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-- Persistent Data
local multiRefObjects = {

} -- multiRefObjects
local obj1 = {
        ["nextTimeValue"] = "Mon Jun 18 16:39:49 2018";
        ["nextTimeTable"] = {
                ["min"] = 39;
                ["hour"] = 17;
                ["sec"] = 49;
                ["day"] = 18;
                ["isdst"] = true;
                ["wday"] = 2;
                ["yday"] = 169;
                ["month"] = 6;
                ["year"] = 2018;
        };
        ["currentTimeTable"] = {
                ["min"] = 39;
                ["hour"] = 16;
                ["sec"] = 49;
                ["day"] = 18;
                ["isdst"] = true;
                ["wday"] = 2;
                ["yday"] = 169;
                ["month"] = 6;
                ["year"] = 2018;
        };
}
return obj1

[dannybloe]

Yes but it is not needed as I explained above. You can however extract the raw time string and store that and feed that back into Time() when you need it again.

[Freemann]

So to "reuse" this topic;
Trying to make my variables global available, but not getting there.

how should I use the global define variables for getting/setting in my scripts?

Tried some variations like;
for setting:

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domoticz.globalData.motionVar.add('Foo')
domoticz.globalData.motionVar = 'On'
domoticz.data.motionVar.add('Foo')
domoticz.data.motionVar = 'On'

I'm not getting the __data_global_data.lua to show data...

and should I define the global_data vars in my "local" scripts again?


[SOLVED] and maybe it can help somebody
found it after some "testing/debugging";
/home/user/domoticz/scripts/dzVents/scripts/global_data.lua looks like;

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data = {
      LastMotionOn = { history = true, maxItems = 1}
}

normal dzvents script is doing for historical setting;

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domoticz.globalData.LastMotionOn.add('On')

normal dzvents script is doing for historical getting;

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domoticz.globalData.LastMotionOn.get(1).time.secondsAgo