Scope
This document shows you how to make a recurring action based on day and time in Pathfinder Core Pro.
Description
You may wish to have Pathfinder Core Pro perform a recurring action for some reason. This could be a silence alarm monitor that turns on every weekend, but not during the week, or a route change that occurs only when conditions are met within a specific window of time on a specific day during the week.
In order to do this, we'll need to combine a few tools within Pathfinder: Timer, Memory Slot, and Logic Flow.
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Example
We need to set up recurring silence alarm that triggers route change using a Logic Flow, but we only want this to occur on the Saturday mornings between 8AM - 10AM.
Two Conditions
To create a recurring action with 2 conditions (time and silence), we'll use an AND combiner in a Logic Flow that triggers off of a few conditions (the day and time being true, and the silence being true). If both are true, then it will pass "True" along to another condition that can trigger some action (send an email, turn on a light, etc.). Below I have a Logic Flow that triggers a GPO to go "low" when both arguments are true. In this case, there is silence, but it is not within my specified Date/Time range, so the output of the "AND" is "false":
Getting the Date/Time condition met is a little tricky, and requires you use a Memory Slot, as the Timers in Pathfinder do not have an "on" or "off" condition that you can use in a Logic Flow directly (at least not in a way that would work for this purpose).To start, create a Memory slot under the Memory Slots section. I've created one here called TimerOn. I'd keep the Startup State at "last known" and Persistent set to "True". To start, set the Value to "False"
Now, go to the Timers section and create a Date/Time event. Select "Day of Week" for Timer Type name it:
Below, next to the "Start Property", click the "..." button and then select the Slot Value property of the Memory slot you just created:
Do the same for the "End Property" section. In the values below each, type "True" next to the Start Value, and "False" next to the End Value. Click apply.
We've created our Date/Time condition. Every time we're in the window of time defined in the Timer, it will put a "True" value in our memory slot, and then put a "False" value in when we're out of the window. We'll use this as a condition in the Logic Flow.Lastly before we head to the Logic Flow, create an silence alarm in the "Audio Alarms" section:
Finally, head over to the Logic Flow section and create a few conditions with a combiner. One condition for the memory slot you created, one for the Silence alarm, and have them pass a "True" or "False" value into the combiner:
Regarding the Translator Properties, since we defined "True" and "False" as our values in the Memory Slot, I've decided just to pass those values along as-is, which is why you see a * = * value in the top Translator. With the Silence alarm, I'm passing a true value if there is silence (i.e.: we're off the air), and a false value if there is Audio Present.If conditions are true, then the combiner will send "True" over to the other side (meaning you've got a silent condition in your window of time), which you can use to perform some action (sound the alarm!). Otherwise, if not all conditions are true, then the combiner will pass a "False" value to the other side:
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