[ANSWERED]Clock

Is there a way to put a clock or the current time with seconds on a control page easily?

The only way that I can think of doing this is to have an applescript constantly running and putting the current time into an Indigo variable then having that variable posted on the control page, but that seems very CPU intensive.

[jay (support)]

A script inserting into a variable is the only way. Note however, that having a page element update once per second is significantly more impactful (network) than the CPU necessary to run the script (it's trivial).

How can I implement the clock?

I created a variable which is updated every minute (by a schedule) containing time, put it in control page;
the problem is that at every update the "indigo server status" variable is update with "<variableName> updated" and this is not nice to see.

If I use AppleScript, does it happen?
What kind of AppleScript shall I use? External or embedded into something?

Thanks and sorry for the stupid questions

Marco

[matt (support)]

I believe that will happen regardless of the technique used to update the variable.

That status control on the Control Page is optional, however, so you could just delete it from that particular Control Page.

At the moment I plan to build just a single Control Page as I do not have so many devices

But thanks for the answer