Time How Long TV's are On During The Day

[control4user007]

Hi,

 

I want to have a way to count how long my TV's are on during the day (to use in an email by adding a variable).  I'm not sure if I am missing something simple, but I don't think the timer widget can help?  I want it to work something like this:

 

Every night at 12:00 am, the counter will reset to 0.  

Whenever a particular TV in the house is turned on, it will start counting how long it registers "on" for.  

At the end of every night I will get an email with the total hours that each TV in the house was on for.

 

Does that sound like something that is doable?

 

Thanks!

[Cyknight]

Timer with wanted interval (I'll use 60 seconds/1 minute for example)

Variable number

 

When TV turns on START (NOT reset in this case) timer

When TV turns off STOP timer.

When timer expires, add 1 to the variable.

 

At end of day email the variable before resetting to 0.

 

Email will give time in minutes in my scenario, but use what ever timer length you want.

[control4user007]

Very interesting.  Thank you for the example.  Is there a way in the email to convert the minutes to HH:MM?

[Cyknight]

No, not in the email template, although you could have the variable that counts the minutes (ie one 60 second timer expiration) in my example do:

When Timer expires

variable [minutes] +1

 

plus:

 

When variable [minutes] changes

IF variable [minutes] is equal to 60

----variable [hours] +1

----set variable [minutes] to 0

 

And send both variables in an email:

 

"The TV was on for [$variable hours] hour(s) and [$variable minutes] minute(s)"

[control4user007]

Perfect!  Exactly what I was looking for!  Thank you!