Counting Operating Hours

After the very nice example of how to use counters http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11730
I would like to ask for an upgrade

Is there a way to visualize in Homegate the operation hours of a lighting group?
I use a coupler to get the state of my emergency generator. Using the counter example above mentioned I could learn how many times the generator started.
But it would be very nice to know how many hours in total worked

 

Just create a module that looks at the Generator Operating GA every say minute (or whatever) and increment a counter if it's running. The counter gives you run-time in whatever delay units you specify

Code:

if getLightingState("generator running GA") then counter := counter + 1; // Minutes run
delay ("0:01:00");

Change the delay to 10 seconds or 1 second if you want more precision.

Alternatively store the current time when the GA turns on, the subtract it from the current time when the GA turns off and add the result into a running total. The disadvantage of this approach is the total run time is only updated when the generator turns off unless you add a bit more logic.