Crontime not work

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1

Hello to all.
I created a rule for my blinds to work depending on the light intensity and it works great, except for the time - it works all the time, although in crontime I prescribed it to work from 8 to 22, but at the same time it is executed every 15 minutes. I have tried various crontime options, but in the end the time interval is not respected.

rule "Jalyzi_Lux"
when  
	 Time cron "* 0/15 8-22 ? * *"
then
    {
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 800) 
	 gShutter.sendCommand(100)
	}
    {
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 800)
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 500)	 
	 gShutter.sendCommand(75)
	}
    {
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 499)
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 200)	 
	 gShutter.sendCommand(50)
	}
    {
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 199)
     if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 0)	 
	 gShutter.sendCommand(0)
	}
end
2

It’s not clear what you are asking. Is the problem that the rule triggers every 15 minutes 24 hours a day, or the fact that it’s triggering every 15 minutes at all?

The given cron expression should execute every 15 minutes between the hours of 08:00 and 22:00.

Some other things I notice is that the code itself almost certainly doesn’t do what you expect. While it’s syntactically correct it is very odd in the way it’s written. The { should go after the if statement, not before.

if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 800){
    gShutter.sendCommand(100)
}
if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 800){
    if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 500){
        gShutter.sendCommand(75)
    } 
}
if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 499){
    if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 200){
        gShutter.sendCommand(75)
    } 
}
if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state <= 199){
    if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 0){
        gShutter.sendCommand(75)
    } 
}

And this code could be made much more concise:

var shutterState = 0
if (ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 800) {
    shutterState = 100
}
else if(ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 500) {
    shutterState = 75
}
else if(ESP_Easy_Lux.state >= 200){
    shutterState = 50
}
// the default value of shutterState handles the case of 0-199

gShutter.sendCommand(shutterState)
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3

Thank you for your help.
The problem is that it works 24 hours a day. I tried various options, read many topics and even saw the exact same code somewhere and it worked there.
For the primitiveness of the code, I apologize) this is my first rule and I did it for two days. But it does work as it should, even with the errors you listed.

4

I just noticed another interesting point - the command is issued a full minute once a second, that is, once every 15 minutes, not one command is issued to execute the rule, but as many as 60 (!) сommands.

5

Using an online Quartz cron generator (recommended in the docs), I get the following for your use case:

0 0/15 8-22 ? * * *

Does that work?

6

Thanks for your reply.
This was my very first krone, but unfortunately it also works 24 hours. I am using https://www.freeformatter.com/cron-expression-generator-quartz.html#

7

And you’re sure you’re not running the routine in another rule somewhere?

If it was me, I’d take out the hyphen, and try the following:

0 0/15 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22 ? * * *
8

Oh yeah, I do have one more rule:

 rule "Zakritiye jalyzi vecherom"
when  
     Time cron "0 1 22 * * ?"
then
     gShutter.sendCommand(DOWN)
end

     rule "Otkritiye jalyzi utrom"
when  
     Time cron "0 1 8 * * ?"
then
     gShutter.sendCommand(UP)
end

But I think it cannot affect this rule in any way, since it is performed only twice a day.

Looks interesting, I’ll test it tomorrow and let you know the results. Thank.

9

I think your problem is that you need 8-21 if you want its last execution at 21:45.

If I let me show the next execution events for 8-22 it says:

Fri Sep 25 22:45:00 UTC 2020
Sat Sep 26 08:00:00 UTC 2020

Btw. it executes every second because of the * at first position, you need a 0 there for once every 15 minutes :wink:

If you don’t want to wait until tomorrow evening, just test it against the next full hour.

10

That’s what I thought, so I suggested

and the OP responded that they’d tried it and it also ran every minute


:man_shrugging:

11

Nah he stated that it ran 24 hours (probably he only checked 1-2 executions after 10pm which is caused by 8-22 instead of 8-21)

The fact it runs every 15 minutes 60 times is another thing which he should fix :wink:

12

Hello. I apologize for not answering for so long.
Indeed, for the code to work as I want, it was necessary to set the time one hour less)

when
Time cron “0 0/15 8-19 ? * * *”
then

Everything turned out to be very simple, maybe it will help someone. Thank you all for your help.