[SOLVED] Check day of the week / between two hours

[Jariway1 (Mikel)]

Hi everyone, I’m new at rules, so I was able to create a few simple rules like making HTTP requests etc.

So I was reading the documentation and I’m now able to make a rule using cron, but I don’t think cron is something I need this time. I want to check if my door is open at mondays between 8pm and 9pm. How can I do this? Searching in Google I found that there’s something like now.getDayOfWeek and similar functions. Where can I find the documentation for the now.?

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

See:

[Deprecated] Design Pattern: Time Of Day

[Edit] Adde link to Time of Day State Machine For years now I’ve let this Design Pattern post get out of hand so I’m going to rein it in a bit now. It’s really expanded away from what it’s originally intended to be (i.e. a way to illustrate how to code a time based state machine) into a thread that is mostly about the example, Time of Day. It’s partially my fault for naming the thread “Time of Day”. But there are better alternatives for Time of Day in specific and time based state machines in g…

[Jariway1 (Mikel)]

Thanks, I’ll take a look

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Jariway1

Where can I find the documentation for the now. ?

Full documentation for now can be found DateTime (Joda time 2.2 API) and the DP Vincent linked to showssome examples of how to use them.