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jostim
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I can't get the command ph_secondsdiffsec to work.
I am trying to make a macro that turns off the lights in the house when nobody is home (or asleep). I have a check on all events that show 'human activity' (lights, IR, motion sensors) and store the time of the latest 'human triggered event'. Every 15 minutes I run a macro that checks if the last human activity is more than 1.5 hours ago. If that is the case, PowerHome turns off most lights.
I would like to use the command ph_secondsdiffsec, because it is smart enough to understand that 00:10:00 is later than 23:55:00. However, I can't get the command to work. I am probably missing something obvious again.
Here is the command I can't get to work:
ph_secondsdiffsec (ph_getglobal_t ("TIME"), now ())
Any suggestions?
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Jos,
Use ph_secondsdiff instead of ph_secondsdiffsec. Apparently, the help file is wrong and the text for ph_secondsdiffsec is really meant for ph_secondsdiff.
ph_secondsdiffsec accepts two double values representing seconds and does the same calculation. In this case, adding 86400.0 to the second parameter if it's less than the first parameter.
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Dave.
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Dave,
Thanks for your quick answer. Problem solved.
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