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