defaultValue for time type

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I have a ‘time’ type setting and I would like to set a default value of 1pm (13:00). I’ve tried various things and haven’t figured this out. Thank you.

Here is a code snippet to show what I’m trying to modify. I think what I meant to say is how to I define a “time” type constant?

input(name: 'theTimeToDoThings', type: 'time', title: 'Time when all the magic happens', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true)

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I didn’t try that before, but my understanding on how ST localize things is… they don’t localize anything. For instance, you want to use a unit (C vs F degrees), well you have to manage it by yourself in your code.

I believe it will be the same for the time.

I found this code in routine-director.groovy on the ST public master which could help you.

private getTimeOk() {
def result = true
if (starting && ending) {
def currTime = now()
def start = timeToday(starting, location?.timeZone).time
def stop = timeToday(ending, location?.timeZone).time
result = start < stop ? currTime >= start && currTime <= stop : currTime <= stop || currTime >= start
}
log.trace “timeOk = $result”
result
}

private hhmm(time, fmt = “h:mm a”) {
def t = timeToday(time, location.timeZone)
def f = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(fmt)
f.setTimeZone(location.timeZone?:timeZone(time))
f.format(t)
}

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Here are a couple things I’ve tried:

def defaultTime = timeToday("13:00", location.timeZone).time
def defaultTime = timeToday("13:00", location.timeZone)

But neither of these seem to work when placed as a default value for a time type input:

input(name: 'theTimeToDoThings', type: 'time', title: 'Time when all the magic happens', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, defaultValue: defaultTime)
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This will work if you want to hardcode the value. It has to follow the full date time format from JSScript something (sorry I read that yesterday but I cannot find the reference again in the ST documentation. Should be somewhere in a chapter dealing with Time).

    input(name: 'theTimeToDoThings', type: 'time', title: 'Time when all the magic happens', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, defaultValue: "2017-11-05T13:00:00.000-0800")

But remember this is the defaultValue so it is used only the first time you enter your device settings before you set another value.

BTW, I believe that you cannot pass a defaultvalue through a variable, just like the rest of a DTH sections used for the GUI, these are parsed and not interpreted so your setting value is either a string that the parser reads and set if no value is stored in the ‘theTimeToDoThing’. Another way would be to send an event to “theTimeToDoThing” with a value following the string format I put above and do that from the Installed function so that it happens only once in the DTH life.

Hope it helps

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Can you clarify what you mean by this and maybe give a short example?

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I was thinking of

sendEvent(name:“theTimeToDoThings2”, value:“2017-11-05T08:54:00.000-0800”)

But I didn’t manage to make it working.
So you are back to my first proposal. This one works:

input(name: 'theTimeToDoThings', type: 'time', title: 'Time when all the magic happens', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, defaultValue: "2017-11-05T13:00:00.000-0800")
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That does work, however it is time zone specific. If this is just for me than that’s fine, I’ll just set it to my local time zone (-6 or -7) but I was hoping to not do that.

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Hey look at what I just found… I didn’t try it but seems solving your issue…

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That worked exactly as I wanted. In case you need a code example here is the code from my setup page:

def setupPage() {
  dynamicPage(name: 'setupPage', title: 'Setup Lock', nextPage: 'mainPage', uninstall: true) {
    section('Choose devices for this lock') {
      def defaultTime = timeToday("13:00", location.timeZone).format("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", location.timeZone)
      input(name: 'ical', type: 'text', title: 'Airbnb Calendar Link', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, image: 'https://images.lockmanager.io/app/v1/images/calendar.png', submitOnChange: true)
      input(name: 'userSlot', type: 'enum', options: parent.availableSlots(settings.userSlot), title: 'Select slot', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, submitOnChange: true)
      input(name: 'checkoutTime', type: 'time', title: 'Checkout time (when to change codes)', required: true, refreshAfterSelection: true, submitOnChange: true, defaultValue: defaultTime)
      input(name: 'userName', title: 'Name for User', required: true, image: 'https://images.lockmanager.io/app/v1/images/user.png', defaultValue: 'Airbnb', submitOnChange: true)
    }
  }
}

I am using this in my fork of lock-manager I wrote that has a new user type that automates setting entry codes to the last 4 digits of a guest’s phone number. This should be in the smartthings documentation as being able to use a variable for a defaultValue makes life much easier.

My repo: lock-manager fork on Github

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