[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:

Design Pattern: Time Of Day

Please see Design Pattern: What is a Design Pattern and How Do I Use Them for an explanation of what a DP is and how to use them. Problem Statement Often in home automation one has certain rules they want to run at certain times or have the home automation exhibit different behaviors for different times of day. The naieve approach would be to do the time comparisons inline in each Rule that cares about the time of day. This DP provides an alternative approach. This DP is particularly suitable …

[Jariway1 (Mikel)]

Thanks, I’ll take a look

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Where can I find the documentation for the now. ?

Full documentation for now can be found http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/DateTime.html and the DP Vincent linked to showssome examples of how to use them.