Re: Count record that resets by date

[Daniel Cuneo via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Eric, I'm not sure if I'm miss-understanding your example, or mis-stated my use case.

Use case: Every time a user presses "reset" on a display manager (caput), the counter increments. The counter resets to 0 everyday at 0 hour, providing a daily sum of resets.

In my adaption of your record scheme, I use the "now" record to simulate pressing  reset (caput on a bo).

I take the time stamp from that press, compare it to the time stored, and increment the count if the time is within the same period, (day, minute or hour depending on %j, %M %H). If the time component increments, then send the reset signal.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:12 PM Eric Norum <wenorum@lbl.gov> wrote:

I think that the code you show below won’t quite work right.  It will increment the count once per second.

Note the OOPT field in my example.  It pushes the value into the count record (and hence causes the ‘count’ record to process) only when the calculation is non-zero — i.e. only when the count record is to be cleared.

On Mar 14, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Daniel Cuneo via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

This is what I've decided on based on Eric's and Diego's examples:

I learned a lot from this. Many thanks to everyone for sharing their ideas.

One gotacha: The STRINGIN record translates the time stamp to a strftime conversion, %M for testing and %j for production. That output is still a string, "001" through "365". However, CALC takes this string and casts it into an integer. I haven't confirmed this assumed cast from base source code yet, so correct me if I'm wrong.

>cat db/counter.db 

record(bi, "$(user):now") {

    field(PINI, "YES")

    field(SCAN, "1 second")

    field(FLNK, "$(user):day")

}

record(stringin, "$(user):day") {

    field(DTYP, "Soft Timestamp")

    field(INP,  "@%M") # for testing purposes using 1 minute

    field(TSEL, "$(user):now.TIME")

    field(FLNK, "$(user):clear")

}

record(calcout, "$(user):clear") {

    field(INPA, "$(user):day NPP MS")

    field(INPB, "1000")

    field(CALC, "A>B?1:0;B:=A")

    field(DOPT, "Use CALC")

    field(OOPT, "Every Time")

    field(OUT,  "$(user):count.C PP")

}

record(calc, "$(user):count") {

    field(INPC, "$(user):clear.VAL")

    field(VAL,  "0")

    #field(TPRO, 1)

    field(CALC, "C?0:VAL+1")

}

-- 
Eric Norum
wenorum@lbl.gov