Is a Custom Event Log Possible ?

Imagine I gave a particular event of interest, and I would like to have a daily log of all the times that particular event occurred. For example, what f You wanted to see a record of when my doors were locked/unlocked? Or when motion was detected in any of my “secure” zones?

I realize that I can find that info in the event log, but sifting through all those events is super tedious. Is there a plug-in, or maybe a bit of Python script that I could implement to manually (and separately) log particular events of high interest?

I use Python to log each time my irrigation water meter increments by 10 GPH. Partial contents of resulting text file:

Date, Time, Gallons
2021-03-29, 02:03:24, 520
2021-03-29, 02:06:50, 530
2021-03-29, 02:10:16, 540
2021-03-29, 02:13:42, 550
2021-03-29, 02:17:08, 560
2021-03-29, 02:20:33, 570

My code:

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# write irrigation log
# indigo.variables[1062132435] # "IrrigationGallonsVariable"

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
timeVar = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d, %H:%M:%S")
gallonsVar = str(indigo.variables[1062132435].value)
irrigationLogFile=open('/Users/cavedale/Desktop/IrrigationLog.txt', 'a')
irrigationLogFile.write(timeVar)
irrigationLogFile.write(', ')
irrigationLogFile.write(gallonsVar)
irrigationLogFile.write('\n')
irrigationLogFile.close()


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This looks perfect - thank you !

I do something similar across a number of different logs and scripts. I save mine with a *.csv extension, but that's pure personal preference. I save these files on a NAS drive thusly:

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2022
  |__11
    |__24
      |__foo.csv
      |__bar.csv


so that each day's logs are in a distinct folder.