Trouble understanding rangeValue

#1

1) Give a description of the problem

I’m trying to use rangeValue to change the header of the gauge to read Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall based on the number of days in the year

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2) What is the expected behaviour?

According to the number of days in the year, the gauge header should read (0-91) “Winter”, (92-182) “Spring”, (183-274) “Summer”, (275-365) “Fall”

3) What is happening/not happening?

Can’t get the variables to work correctly.

[EDIT] I guess I should tag @WCmore, since it’s his tile I’m trying to recreate.

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston

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5) Attach logs after turning logging level to Full

+6ms ╔Received event [Home].test = 1616256501948 with a delay of 1ms,canQueue: true, calledMyself: false
+49ms ║RunTime initialize > 48 LockT > 0ms > rtDT > 32ms > pistonT > 31ms (first state access 16 7 41)
+52ms ║Runtime (7934 bytes) successfully initialized in 32ms (v0.3.113.20210211_HE)
+52ms ║╔Execution stage started
+55ms ║║Cancelling statement #1’s schedules…
+65ms ║║Calculating (integer)0
+67ms ║║Calculating (string) + (string)0 >> (string) 0
+69ms ║║Calculating (string) 0 + (string) >> (string) 0
+81ms ║║Calculating (string)79 + (string) " Days" >> (string)79 " Days"
+85ms ║║Executed virtual command setTile (1ms)
+92ms ║║Calculating (string)Days of the Year: + (string)79 >> (string)Days of the Year: 79
+93ms ║║Executed virtual command setState (0ms)
+96ms ║╚Execution stage complete. (44ms)
+98ms ╚Event processed successfully (97ms)
#2

Another undocumented function. Sorry I don’t have an answer. I’ve never heard of this function. Where did you find out about it?

EDIT: I found the documentation. Looks like you are missing the default value. I think you could remove the ‘0’ so ‘winter’ becomes the default value. Like this:

range value({dayOfYear}, 'winter', 91, 'spring', 182, 'Summer', 274, 'Fall')

#3

rangeValue

#4

I looked at that earlier. It didn’t help. :frowning:

@guxdude, nope. I’m sure the problem is I’m not formatting the text correctly, but I’ve tried all manner of ways with no luck.

#5

I was just documenting the function. I’m on my phone and haven’t looked been able to look at the piston.

#6

I know. Unfortunately, that link was referring to color values, and I need to carry over text.

#7

Seems to work fine. I did these tests:

putting any value in for the input worked fine:

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using the dayOfYear came up with the correct answer:

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Not sure what problem you ar having…

Wait a minute. You are using dayOfYear before you define it. try switching the order of your define statements.

#8

And while I did that, I noticed I had extraneous vertical bars in the command

{ I rangeValue({dayOfYear}, ‘Winter’, 79, ‘Spring’, 182, ‘Summer’, 274, ‘Fall’) | }

Now the piston works. Thank you!!! :smiley:

#9

I was going to ask you about those next. Glad you got it working. :smile: