Time Calculation

[grant.cpt]

Hi All,

I've got a use case I want to try and solve. And that's calculating the time between for a value to change from x to y.

Starting Temperature: 50
Time: 10:00:00
Next value: 51
Time: 10:05:00

So the output will be 5 as that's the time that passed for the value to change from 50 to 51.

[jbudd]

Here is a function to calculate the time difference between successive message timestamps.
If the message sent at the trigger temperature does not contain a timestamp, you would have to generate one in the function.

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{"days":0,"hrs":0,"mins":2,"secs":55,"ms":575}

[Buckskin]

An alternative to jbudd's offering. Only goes down to seconds (uses same format as Tasmota)

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0T00:01:51