Berry: rule question ... why does this trigger for all timer changes?

[forumlw06]

Hi,

i would like to capture in Berry if Timer1 is enabled/disabled. So i created this test:

def tt(v, t, d)
	print(f'{t=} / {v=} / {d=}')
end

tasmota.remove_rule('Timers#Timer1#Enable')
tasmota.add_rule('Timers#Timer1#Enable', tt)

This triggers if i enable/disable Timer1 in the gui as expected, but it also triggers if i enable/disable all other timers (Timer2, Timer3, ...).

How would i write a rule in berry, that only triggers for a specific timer?
Or even better a general rule that catches enabling/disabling of any timer1, ... timer16 and returns the number of the timer that was enabled/disabled?

Thanks for any help of the berry/tasmota experts.

I read the docs in the Rules about "multi level JSON messages", so i thought my Timers#Timer1#Enable would only trigger for Timer1. I also tried Timer1#Enable, but to no avail.

[sfromis]

If you had read the console output, you'd have seen the explanation. When you do any update to timers, Tasmota will execute the command Timers reporting the state of all timers. Your Timers#Timer1#Enable does work as you thought, but when the reported timers state contains all timers, you'll always see each trigger firing, with no option to avoid this.

To find out what timer detail was changed, you'd have to keep last timers payload saved, and compare with the update.

[forumlw06]

Ah, now I see. Too bad! I thought I can catch single timers. Did not know, that the timers command is called. Thought, that this is more granular.

So I need to see how I can keep track of enabled timers on my own.

Thanks

[forumlw06]

Hi sfromis,

i need some further help! When the rule above is triggered by any timer change, my variable d is a string (that somehow looks like json, but it is not?):

This is the output (i deleted all subsequent timers after Timer5 for better readability

t=Timers / v=ON / d={'Timer5': {'Days': '1000000', 'Repeat': 1, 'Mode': 0, 'Time': '00:00', 'Window': 0, 'Enable': 1, 'Action': 3},

How could i convert d to map, so that i easily can access the various values, like dmap['Timer5']['Days'] (assuming dmap is the map representation of d? I hope i don't have to parse it as a string.

Thanks for your continued help!

[sfromis]

Your variable d there is not a string, but a map, which was already parsed from the JSON in the payload (using the json.load function). When you print a map, it is stringified in a format similar to JSON, with one difference being the string delimiter ' instead of what JSON requires, "

Note that to pick one timer only, you can do something like this, with value being a map:
tasmota.add_rule('Timer4', /value,trigger,data->print(value))
Of course, this does not suggest that the specific timer was actually changed.

[forumlw06]

Thanks again for the detailed explanation. Did not find this in the documentation. It works now!