Feature Requests

Could you also add in sunrise and sunset times? Then I can ditch a couple more variables for control pages

Dude...perfect timing on this!

My little 2011 mac mini running Indigo has been using a lot of CPU time lately. I have 8 tablets running various control pages throughout the house and I had put a clock display in the lower corner of each one. The only way I had gotten that to work was a scheduled task to insert timestamp into a variable, then have that variable displayed on the control pages for a clock.

This action definitely had an impact running every minute...using this plugin removed the need to do this and has helped bring the CPU use down alongside some other tweaks.

As far as a feature request, a few more date variations? like
Sun, Apr 29, 2018
Sunday, April 29
etc..

Thanks!
Ross

I’m going to look into providing each date item separately, then see how best for users to join the states together how they want, such as the examples you gave.


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In fact I’ve just thought how to do it.

I’ll provide mechanism for users add custom states using the python date format, which I’ll then refresh for you same as the others, all in one place.

Peter


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[jay (support)]

This action definitely had an impact running every minute...using this plugin removed the need to do this and has helped bring the CPU use down alongside some other tweaks

Really? An Insert Timestamp into Variable action running once a minute should have had no impact on performance. Once a second, perhaps, but not once a minute.

This action definitely had an impact running every minute...using this plugin removed the need to do this and has helped bring the CPU use down alongside some other tweaks

Really? An Insert Timestamp into Variable action running once a minute should have had no impact on performance. Once a second, perhaps, but not once a minute.

I did wonder, as presumably my plugin is doing as much in one minute as your action, in fact more as I’m inserting timestamp into several states every minute. (Not date, I only update those daily)


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See announcement thread for update 1.0.4.

This action definitely had an impact running every minute...using this plugin removed the need to do this and has helped bring the CPU use down alongside some other tweaks

Really? An Insert Timestamp into Variable action running once a minute should have had no impact on performance. Once a second, perhaps, but not once a minute.

I did wonder, as presumably my plugin is doing as much in one minute as your action, in fact more as I’m inserting timestamp into several states every minute. (Not date, I only update those daily)


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Well...seems the server still gets taxed...it takes time for things to ramp up after a restart. I think I'm going to just migrate it to the main 2010 Mac Pro again. Even with all the items running on that box, the CPUs are barely running a 7-10% average over time with occasional spikes to 30% or so when multiple people stream from Plex.

I'm gonna upgrade the 6c/12t Mac Pro CPUs from 2.4GHz E5645s in there now to a pair of X5690s running 3.46GHz soon...so the spikes should be shorter. As much as I'd like to justify buying a new 5K iMac, I don't actually need it...it's nothing more than an "I want" scenario.. Probably gonna upgrade the Mac Pro with a PCIe card + NVMe 1TB SSD to I can get much faster response from all services on it.

DIdn't mean to derail the Feature Request thread with tech weirdness...

Thanks again for the plugin Peter!

Could you also add in sunrise and sunset times? Then I can ditch a couple more variables for control pages

Done.

See 1.0.5

Cool! Thanks!


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Nit picky I’m sure but how about a space between the time and am pm?
10:00am would display 10:00 am.

Thanks,

Carl

How about a space between the time and am pm?

You can do this with the five custom formats.

Code: Select all

%I:%M %p 09:00 am
%-I:%M %p 9:00 am

Sorry but I'm not sure how to implement this.

I copy and pasted this: %-I:%M %p into Custom 1
and set a trigger to fire on any change to Custom 1 to set my time variable but it doesn't work.

Must have missed something?

Thanks,

Carl

Getting closer. I set the trigger to fire on a change to local time and that works but the am pm is now in upper case.
Can it be in lower case?

Thanks,

Carl

If you just display the state Custom1 on a control page (or look in the UI states), it should show correctly?

I’m not at pc at moment to get screenshots.


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