Clock#Time and several days of the week

[Andrew Mamohin]

Is it possible to use one event Clock#Time for several days of the week?

For example, I need an alarm every working day (excluding Saturday and Sunday).
In the cron, it was possible to specify the days of the week 1-5, but here I can only duplicate events?

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On Clock#Time=Mon,6:30 do
 event,bb
endon
On Clock#Time=Tue,6:30 do
 event,bb
endon
.....

[Ath]

Is it possible to use one event Clock#Time for several days of the week?

For example, I need an alarm every working day (excluding Saturday and Sunday).
In the cron, it was possible to specify the days of the week 1-5, but here I can only duplicate events?

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On Clock#Time=Mon,6:30 do
 event,bb
endon
On Clock#Time=Tue,6:30 do
 event,bb
endon
.....

That should trigger on day 'Wrk' for 'Working day'.

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On Clock#Time=Wrk,6:30 do
 event,bb
endon

Duplicating events won't work, as only the first found instance will be executed for performance reasons (stops scanning the rules file(s) when a match is found).

[Ath]

I've added PR #4719 with some documentation on those 'Wrk' and 'Wkd' day indicators, as, although they have been available since 2016, they where never documented.

[Andrew Mamohin]

'Wrk' and 'Wkd' day indicators

Thanks, I'll test tomorrow morning. But, it does not allow you to set the event to an group of any days (for example: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday).

[Ath]

Thanks, I'll test tomorrow morning. But, it does not allow you to set the event to an group of any days (for example: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday).

No, that's not possible, though you can have multiple events with different arguments, and you can create a new event handler that does the specific tasks, and call that from several other event handlers, so there will be minimal code duplication:

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On Clock#Time=Mon,6:30 Do
  AsyncEvent,SomeWeekdaysMorningTask
Endon
On Clock#Time=Wed,6:30 Do
  AsyncEvent,SomeWeekdaysMorningTask
Endon
On Clock#Time=Fri,6:30 Do
  AsyncEvent,SomeWeekdaysMorningTask
Endon
On SomeWeekdaysMorningTask do
  // Several commands to be executed on some days of the week
Endon

[Andrew Mamohin]

No, that's not possible, though you can have multiple events with different arguments, and you can create a new event handler that does the specific tasks, and call that from several other event handlers, so there will be minimal code duplication:

Of course, I did just that (I provided the code in the first post).

[TD-er]

Better use asyncevent when possible though.
The difference with "event" is that asyncevent will be appended to the eventqueue.
event will create a new rules parsing and thus may eventually lead to stack overflow if this also triggers event, etc.
Apart from the fact that 'event' does use more resources and will cause longer rules execution thus 'blocking' other things to do on the ESP.

[Andrew Mamohin]

Better use asyncevent when possible though.

Ok. In which case it is impossible to use AsyncEvent instead of Event?
I want to replace in my rules, but I don't want problems.

[TD-er]

If you need things to be updated/set/handled immediately.

event -> Handled immediately
asyncevent -> Added to the event queue

N.B. adding to the event queue also checks to see if the same event is already present and thus performs a deduplication.

So both have their pros and cons.
Using asyncevent will introduce some delayed response to events, which may help getting out of (or even preventing) typical loops like acting on an event when a relay is closed, causing it to open again, etc.

But depending on the situation it may also trigger such loops when other event handling is based on assumed states after some event should have been handled.

So the answer to your question is: It depends