Use PLEG to set current timestamp in Variable Container?

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
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Is there a way to use a PLEG Action (Advanced) to set a variable in a Variable Container plugin to set, say, “Variable2” to the current timestamp (the equivalent of os.time())?

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One way would be to

put the Luup to populate the timestamp into Variable Container into a scene.

Record the scene number.

In the advanced tab of your PLEG action, you can select PLEG as the device, then add it and select Run A Scene.

PLEG will execute that scene with the Luup.

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[quote=“Bulldoglowell, post:2, topic:179473”]One way would be to

put the Luup to populate the timestamp into Variable Container into a scene.

Record the scene number.

In the advanced tab of your PLEG action, you can select PLEG as the device, then add it and select Run A Scene.

PLEG will execute that scene with the Luup.[/quote]

True. Trying to avoid running it as a scene though (am currently using scenes, etc and they’re a PITA when it comes to Luup/Lua restarts. PLEG handles that more gracefully, IMHO.

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understood, but this scene would only execute as a result of a condition within PLEG, so the scene bridging a Luup restart would only be a factor if vera restarts the precise moment that this scene is run.

a scene populating a variable would execute in milliseconds.

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You could use the # operator recently added to PLEG to get the timestamp of the Condition as an argument for the action. Something like:

Conditions
DoVC

Actions
DoVC VariableContainer SetVariable1 newVariable1={(#DoVC)}

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nice