[Solved]Calculate duration from number (seconds)

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I have an item which receives a number from an http request. that works as expected
I want to calculate the hours and minutes (hh:mm) and send the new value to another item. Then I want to display that duration.

e.g. 6060 = 01h 41min

Can anyone help`?

I tried several rules but non woked

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val totalSecs = SecondsNumber.state as Number

val sec = totalSecs % 60
val min = (totalSecs / 60) % 60
val hrs = (totalSecs / (60*60)) % 24
val day = totalSecs / (60*60*24)
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Could I ask to give a hint how to include your code to my Player-Item to show the min:sec instead of dezimal.
Here my item (Squeezeboxplayer)
I think I have to replace the %d, but how?

Number SB_ARZ_Time "Time [%d]" { channel="squeezebox:squeezeboxplayer:LMS:SB_ARZ:currentPlayingTime" }
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You don’t. The code above is the body of a Rule. You must create Rules in text .rules files. See

http://docs.openhab.org/tutorials/beginner/index.html

http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/rules-dsl.html

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OK,
I created a rule:

rule "Calculate decimal time counter"
when
	Item SB_ARZ_Time changed
then
	val totalSecs = SecondsNumber.state as Number
	val sec = totalSecs % 60
	val min = (totalSecs / 60) % 60
	val hrs = (totalSecs / (60*60)) % 24
	val day = totalSecs / (60*60*24)
end

Because of my limited knowledge with object-orientated programming I don’t know how to handle the error which I see in the log.

Rule 'Calculate decimal time counter': The name 'SecondsNumber' cannot be resolved to an item or type; line 5, column 18, length 13
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It just says that you don‘t have an Item called „SecondsNumber“

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Also, this is just a code fragment. You still need to do the work to take day, hrs, min, and sec into a String and postUpdate that to your appropriate Item.

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SB_ARZ_Time contains the number, so I changed to:

rule "Calculate decimal time counter"
when
	Item SB_ARZ_Time changed
then
	val totalSecs = SB_ARZ_Time.state as Number
	val sec = totalSecs % 60
	val min = (totalSecs / 60) % 60
	val hrs = (totalSecs / (60*60)) % 24
	val day = totalSecs / (60*60*24)
end

Now I get this error:

Rule 'Calculate decimal time counter': Unknown variable or command '%'; line 6, column 12, length 14

I really appreciate your help with some code.

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Well shoot. It looks like the Rules DSL can’t work with Numbers for the modulo operator.

val int totalSecs = (SB_ARZ_Time.state as Number).intValue
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Hi Rich,

thank you for your quick reply! I will try it the next days. The follow up by Doxer is also very useful to me …
Once I have a working solution I will post it here … but it may take some days :slight_smile:

kind reagrds
Markus

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This is the working rule:

rule "Calculate decimal time counter"
when
	Item SB_ARZ_Time changed
then
	val totalSecs = (SB_ARZ_Time.state as Number).intValue
	val sec = totalSecs % 60
	val min = (totalSecs / 60) % 60
	val hrs = (totalSecs / (60*60)) % 24
	val day = totalSecs / (60*60*24)
	logInfo("default.rules", min.toString + ":" + sec.toString)
end

Now I have to investigate for the formating (ss:mm) and how to transfer this to the item. :frowning:

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Something like this should work:

TimeString.postUpdate(String::format("%02d:%02d:%02d:%02d", day, hrs, min, sec))

Where TimeString is your String Item.

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Got my problem solved and it is running as expected.

Short summary what I did:

Thos items are active:

Number  VU_Dauer    "Dauer [%s]"             		( VUPLUS )	{ http="<[http://192.168.1.6:80/web/getcurrent:3000:REGEX(.*?<e2eventduration>(.*?)</e2eventduration>.*)]" }
String  VU_Duration_converted    "Dauer1 [%s]" 		( VUPLUS

This rule is set:

rule "Dauer"
when
		Item   VU_Dauer changed
then
		val totalSecs = (VU_Dauer.state as Number).intValue
		val min = (totalSecs / 60) % 60
		val hrs = (totalSecs / (60*60)) % 24
		val txt = (VU_Dauer)
		VU_Duration_converted.postUpdate(String::format("%02d:%02d",  hrs, min))
		logWarn("hilfe", "" +totalSecs)		
end

Log tells me the correct received Number in seconds

2017-12-21 11:37:49.498 [WARN ] [eclipse.smarthome.model.script.hilfe] - 21600

Running on OH 2 and OH 2.2 (release)
Thank your for the help provided, appreciate it very much!

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Hi Markus,
your post helped me how to transfer the value from the rule to the item. Learning by doing :slight_smile:

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