We have some great timer plugins such as “Timers & Pesters” and “Timed Device” that count down time.
What I would like to see is a timer plugin that accumulates time. I currently have a few triggers that do
this but it is rather complicated to set up. An example is to keep track of how long the air conditioning is
running.
When my AC starts a tiger sets the time and date to a variable, when it stops a trigger sets the time/date to
an other variable, than a script runs that subtracts the two variables and converts it to hours and minutes
than add that to the last run time to get a total for the day. At midnight a schedule resets the day run to 0 and
add the day run to a week run total. Than more schedules to up date month and yearly totals. That is a lot
of steps.
It would be great if someone could make a “Run Time Plugin”plugin that does all that and more.
So now I can make a new runtime device where I pick a device such as hall thermostat and the plugin device
states will show daily, weekly, monthly, yearly total run times. than the states could could be used in
charts, triggers to alert if you are going over your electrical budget is going to go over the monthly limit
because the AC is running to much. Or the kids are watching too much TV or internet.
So I hope this might motivate one of our great plugin developers.
Elwood