Operating hours, relay closing time..., comparison 3byte

[Daniel]

I'm not sure where you heading here but each object has its update time saved and you can use this instead os.time.

input = grp.find('1/1/1')
start = input.updatetime

This will give you time in numeric format. You can save on and off value in a storage and compare. Here is example of counter from FB Editor, It might help.

Code:

function operating_hours(input, reset, blockID)
  local inputValue = input.value and input.value ~= 0
  if reset and reset ~= 0 then
    if inputValue then
      storage.set(blockID .. "_start", os.time())
    end
    return inputValue and 0 or nil
  elseif inputValue then
    local start = storage.get(blockID .. "_start")
    if start == nil then
      start = input.updatetime
      storage.set(blockID .. "_start", start)
    end
    return (os.time() - start) / 3600
  else
    storage.delete(blockID .. "_start")
    return nil
  end
end




input = grp.find('1/1/1')
reset = grp.getvalue('1/1/4')
blockID= _SCRIPTNAME


hours = operating_hours(input, reset, blockID)
log(hours)
if hours ~= nil then
    grp.write('1/1/2', hours)
end