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Novice Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

Greetings,

I'm trying to make an alarm which doesnt really fire every exactly x seconds, but every randomised amount of seconds.

So, what I'd like to do is

#AL %random(5,10) {<commands>}

However I dont think this works.

with #EXEC %concat .... I think I could setup an alarm for a randomised amount of time, but it would fire at exactly that time each time.

So I suppose I need a one-shot alarm which finishes by setting up the next one-shot alarm etc

Problem is I have no clue on how to do it

Someone can help me?

TIA
Gats

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

#alarm *@varname {varname = %random(x,y);#say Time: %time()}

You will notice a little bit of funkiness when you try to go look at the alarm, but it works.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:58 pm

Yes, that'll set alarm to a random time when it's created, not every time it fires. The easy way to do this is to use the %alarm function to change the timing of the alarm:

#alarm "TestAlarm" %random(5,10) {do whatever;#noop %alarm(TestAlarm,%eval(%random(5,10)*1000))}

should work - if it doesn't, set another alarm to change the first alarm's time 0.5 secs after it fires.

Novice Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

Hi Guys,

Had a little play with this and the easiest I found is :

#ALIAS repeatit {
delay=%random(10,20)
<do whatever you need doing>
#IF (@repeating) {#ALARM +@delay {repeatit}}}

nm eventual syntax errors, am at the office where I dont have zmud installed, but it works fine at home.

repeating is a boolean that can be unset to stop the cycling

This looks like an infinite loop, but fortunately isn't.

Cheers,
Gats