Lua timer not firing.

Posted by Zeno on Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:34 PM — 12 posts, 27,470 views.

Zeno USA Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:34 PM #0

I have this timer:

  <timer enabled="y"    send_to="12"
at_time="y" >
  <send>Note ("Starting new log file.")
CloseLog()
OpenLog ('BIYG-'..os.date("%m")..'-'..os.date("%d")..'-'..os.date("%Y")..'.txt', false)</send>

  </timer>

It is meant to fire at midnight to rotate my logs. The timer seems to never fire though, I tried setting my clock to 11:59PM and watching it hit the time.

Worstje Netherlands Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:49 PM #1

I may be blind, but where is the time you are triggering on in the <timer> tag?

Zeno USA Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:50 PM #2

I dunno. It's set to time at 0 hours, 0 min, 0 sec (which I assume is midnight) in the GUI.

Worstje Netherlands Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:57 PM #3

And is that absolute setting or a relative setting? I can't really test atm.

Otherwise, amuse me and try setting it to 00:01:30 (hh:mm:ss).

Zeno USA Sat 28 Jul 2007 07:59 PM #4

It's set "At the time: 0 0 0".

Here is what I get for 00:01:30

<timer enabled="y" minute="1" second="30.00"    send_to="12"
at_time="y" >
  <send>Note ("Starting new log file.")
CloseLog()
OpenLog ('BIYG-'..os.date("%m")..'-'..os.date("%d")..'-'..os.date("%Y")..'.txt', false)</send>

  </timer>

Worstje Netherlands Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:07 PM #5

And does that work now?

Otherwise, a far-fetched idea of why it might not be working... I recall Nick changing the way <timer> was parsed for ImportXML due to some bug or unintended behaviour. Maybe this is some kind of regression with normal timers?

Zeno USA Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:14 PM #6

Didn't seem to work. I set the clock to 11:59PM and let it go to 12:03AM. Nothing happened.

Worstje Netherlands Sat 28 Jul 2007 08:33 PM #7

Weird. I don't think I can help you anymore then. Sorry. :(

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:28 PM #8

Quote:

The timer seems to never fire though, I tried setting my clock to 11:59PM and watching it hit the time.

Are you connected to the world at the time? You need to check "Active when Disconnected".

Zeno USA Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:30 PM #9

I'm always connected to the world.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:52 PM #10

I set up your timer, and set the time to 11:59 pm, and it fired at midnight. However to test it I did a:



ResetTimer ("test")  -- after renaming the timer "test"

The reason is that if you fiddle with the time it may get confused. Especially if you set the clock back to 11:59 pm it may think it has a day to go (not a minute). So by doing a ResetTimer you are making sure the day/date it is set to fire is the correct one.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 28 Jul 2007 09:54 PM #11

The other thing I would do is print (or note somewhere) the return code from OpenLog. If it fails for some reason, the logs won't open. For example, if the path is not right.