Sleep() in script action

Is there anyway to sleep/pause/wait in an embedded script action?

I'm scripting AirFoil as per this thread but some actions are still overrunning each other.

My current task is to setup Airfoil for playing music (versus whatever I last used it for) - I am therefore disconnecting from all speakers (because I don't know which might be currently active or not), setting their desired volumes, then connecting to those where I want music playing. This works for the local speaker, but my Airport Express speakers are not reconnecting after I've set the volume, which matches the problem I had when doing this through regular Airfoil actions.

Each individual action works if I comment out the rest, so it's definitely an issue with timing.

Any ideas?

Peter

I've just added a loop (while x < 1000, log x, x + 1) before the re-connect, and it is now reconnecting 100% - which proves it is definitely timing.

Peter

Hi Peter,
Could you split the script in two and run them as two separate actions in an Action Group and delay the second action?

I could, which is kinda what I had initially (except using actions, not script) - but Jay suggested I script it which would theoretically solve all my problems.

I still don't understand if/why there isn't a sleep() command in Indigo?

[jay (support)]

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/time_sleep.htm

Though you'll have to be careful with embedded scripts - they're killed if they run longer than 10 seconds. You can just make it an external script to avoid that.