Clock plugin to display time in control page

[davvi]

What's the best way to display a clock on a control page? Is there a plugin that happens to have the time as one of it's variables?

[jay (support)]

Just create a variable to hold the time, then create a schedule that repeats as frequently as you want, and use the "Insert Timestamp into Variable" action in the Action Collection to update it. Then just display that variable on your control page. No extra plugin required.

[davvi]

Thanks Jay!

I know it's not the most processor intensive task, but will updating that variable every minute not burden Indigo too much?

[jay (support)]

Once a minute? Nah. We have some plugins that are updating device states every couple of seconds. The processing from the Indigo server side is pretty much identical for a variable update and a device state update.

[davvi]

Fantastic. Thank you Jay