Is there a way to make a scene that schedules on UTC in stead of local time (Amsterdam, Paris for me)
Setup your Vera as UTC.
There is no way to do this just for one scene.
Ok but that is not what i want (because of the other scenes) so i will (like i already figured out before) make two scenes. One (i live in GMT +1) that schedules ‘one hour early’ that activates only during winter (do that check in some coding) and one that schedules 2 hours early that activates during summer.
Here’s a hackish way of doing it.
Make your scene run every hour.
Put code into the scene’s Luup tab to suppress most runnings, except the one you want.
local hourwanted = 9
local utcnow = os.date("!*t").hour -- ! makes request UTC.
if (utcnow == hourwanted) then
return true
else
return false
end
I bet this behaves terribly around DST changes.
well at least thanks for the os.date(“!*t”).hour