Tv Guide - Current Program Time Calculation

[Ariex]

Hello Guys,

I've made a German TV-Guide Config, it works all perfectly but i want "More".

There are two Time Values, Program beginning and Program end, it is possible to calculate the current Program length?
The Format of the Values is XX:XX, for example 16:15.
I have tried this in Rainmeter:

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[MeasureTimeRTL]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[Klack]
StringIndex=1
Substitute=":":""

[MeasureTime2RTL]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[Klack]
StringIndex=5
Substitute=":":""

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[MeasureCalcTime]
Measure=Calc
Formula=[MeasureTime2RTL]-[MeasureTimeRTL]
DynamicVariables=1

That works, but how to convert it to Minutes?

[Ariex]

Nobody an Idea?

[Chewtoy]

Alex might. He's the math freak here.

But lets see here.
I would probably use decimal time and then convert it.
How you are to convert it, I have not yet figured out.

But 1 Decimal second = 0.864 seconds
1 Decimal minute = 1.44 minutes
1 Decimal hour = 2.4 hours

I bet you can think something up with that.

[Ariex]

Oh big thank's Man

I've tested it, works very well - but sometimes i have little deviations from 1-12minutes in the calculated value, but i read that this is unfortunately normal

But thank's anyway for the tip Dude

[Alex2539]

I would have done it like this:

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[MeasureCalcTime]
Measure=Calc
Formula=((MeasureTime2RTL%100)+(FLOOR(MeasureTime2RTL/100)*60))-((MeasureTimeRTL%100)+(FLOOR(MeasureTimeRTL/100)*60))+(MeasureTimeRTL > MeasureTime2RTL ? 1440 : 0)

This will give you the number of minutes a show lasts. It adds the rightmost digits to 60 times the leftmost digits, converting the time into minutes, and subtracts the start from the end. The conditional statement at the end is in case the program goes past midnight. In that case the time would have been negative so it just adds a day to it to bring it around.

[Chewtoy]

Like I said. The math freak. :)

[Ariex]

Holy Shit!, It Works!

I've only put square brackets around the measures, and then it worked!

Thank you very much Alex, alone I would never have come to this formula.

[santa_ryan]

aww Alex.. you beat me to this ... xP i saw it this morning but had to go :/

[Ariex]

New Idea, new Problem

I don't start a new Topic, because the Problem is nearly the same.

Okay, maybe someone can help, its a very "Special" Problem
The Formula from Alex works wonderful, but i want "More" again...

I want to know how long the following Program is, so i took the time of the following Program in minutes (calculated with Alex's formula) and then i add the time from MeasureTimeLength2RTL (minutevalue, for example 10 or 150 or 90) and converted it to Decimal Numbers and splitted it into two 2 values, hours and minutes, on the Screen you can see thats works very well, but, and now comes the Problem - if the minutevalue under 10, i get for example 17:9 or 12:3, the same Problem is by the hoursvalue, so you see, i need zero's

Of course i have tried it with Substitute="3":"03" , but then it change all three's in the value, for example 17:30 i get 17:030 - not good...

So thats it, i hope this is possible, thanks in advance guys.

[Chewtoy]

[Add0]
Measure=Calc
Formula=MinuteValueMeasure < 9.5 ? 0 : 1
Substitute="1":""

Then just add that before where ever you use your MinuteValueMeasure.

[SomeMeter]
Meter=String
MeasureName=Add0
MeasureName2=MinuteValueMeasure
Text="%1%2min"