Ap scheduler

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@Stefan_Uytterhoeven

Then I wanted a rule to start at a time “to be defined” in a virtual Item in the sitemap. So, couldn’t use CRON, because you can’t use uit with variables.

This is incorrect. You can create a rule with a cron trigger based on an Item’s state, but you’ll need another rule to delete that rule and recreate it when the Item changes value. Here is an example…

Dynamic set days and time for rules, instead of hard-coded cron?

How about a rule that triggers on an Item change, where the action creates/modifies another rule that triggers on the time from the Item in the first rule? This is not possible in the old rule engine, but with scripted automation, you could do something like this… from core.rules import rule from core.triggers import when @rule("Adjust rule trigger") @when("Item Virtual_DateTime_1 changed") @when("System started") def adjust_rule_trigger(event): adjust_rule_trigger.log.warn("Cron Item chan…

As for apscheduler, it is reported as compatible w/ 2.7, but I agree with Rich that it is not needed.

@Stefan_Uytterhoeven

ps: maybe an interesting library to add to OH 3.0 ?

Python libraries are not a part of OH. A scheduler is more appropriate in openHAB core, so I will not include this in the core Jython helper libraries. However, you are welcome to submit something to the Community section!