While Do loop with delay

[Kai-Roger]

Hello.

Since the code below floods my KNX bus, i want to have a delay between each loop. The os.sleep in the code below does not work. Can anyone explaine how i can delay this loop?


while Variable1 == true
do
  Variable2 :write(true)
  os.sleep (10)
end

[Tim]

Use sleep(1) with no space between sleep and ().




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[Kai-Roger]

Use  sleep(1) with no space between sleep and ().




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Hi.

No that did not work. But i see there is a difference between having no os.sleep and having a os.sleep with any number in the parentheses.
Even if i write os.sleep(10000000), the scrips still writes several telegrams to the bus each second.

[Tim]

What's triggering the script?
All event scripts can run in parallel as many times as they are triggered.
Also it's not os.sleep() just sleep()


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[admin]

You probably have several instances of the same event script running. Please post the whole script code.

[Kai-Roger]

What's triggering the script?
All event scripts can run in parallel as many times as they are triggered.
Also it's not os.sleep() just sleep()


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Hi.

I just made a new small test script, and now i see it is working as it should. I think i had made an event loop that retriggered the script constantly. Thanks for replies. I will see how i can change the way of triggering the script.

[Tim]

No problem

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[Kai-Roger]

Is there a difference between os.sleep and sleep? I see os.sleep is used by Erwin in the forum.

[Tim]

I doubt it, probably just aliases.
Tested them now, they seem to work the same way.

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[Kai-Roger]

I doubt it, probably just aliases.
Tested them now, they seem to work the same way.

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Ok. Thanks.