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combine strings
Posted: Thursday 29 March 2018 22:49
by jandirkv
Hello,
I want to combine two textstrings in dzvents but I cant get it to work.
I want to combine a piece of a url (
http://api.pilot.patrickferreira.com/w6PLXsg32Dy/') with a piece of text to create a url that I can open in dzvents to send a notification. is this possible in dzvents?
Re: combine strings
Posted: Thursday 29 March 2018 23:02
by waaren
Combine strings in dzVents ( dzVents = LUA)
resultString = string1 .. string2
Re: combine strings
Posted: Friday 30 March 2018 8:31
by jandirkv
Thanks the combining works so I'm 1 step closer.
What is try to do is add the time in my message. I tried it like this.
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local setURL
local Header
local Message
local MessageURL
local Now
Now = domoticz.time
setURL=('http://api.pilot.patrickferreira.com/w6PsfgLXh32Dy/')
Header=('de lamp is niet meer/')
Message=('aan sinds ')
MessageURL= setURL .. Header .. Message .. Now
domoticz.openURL(MessageURL)
This is working as long as I only use text. as soon as I try to incorperate the time from domoticz I get the following error.
attempt to concatenate upvalue 'Now'
or
Attempt to call Global time
So what I try to do is convert The time to a textstring so i can use it in my url variable
Re: combine strings
Posted: Friday 30 March 2018 14:26
by waaren
In dzVents, a time-like attribute is an object with properties and methods meaning you have to specify what you want from it.
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Now = domoticz.time
print("************* getISO(): " .. Now.getISO())
print("************* hour: " .. Now.hour)
print("************* seconds: " .. Now.seconds )
print("************* minutes: " .. Now.minutes )
print("************* combined: " .. Now.hour .. ":" .. Now.minutes .. ":" .. Now.seconds )
Re: combine strings
Posted: Friday 30 March 2018 18:14
by jandirkv
thanks
the following did work for me.
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now= (Now.hour .. ":" .. Now.minutes .. ":" .. Now.seconds )