Man, I hate AppleScript! It's like almost programming, but note quite

I put the following together to check the current hour ever few minutes, then set a variable called "rampLightsPartially" based on the result of some operations.

Why? I have my bedroom lighting starting brightness set to 25%, based on the above variable I can increase the brightness using a trigger to 100%. This is so I don't blind myself between 1:00 and 4:00

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property hour : ""

set hour to (do shell script "date +%H") as integer

tell application "IndigoServer"
   -- set the current hour
   if not (variable "currentHour" exists) then
      make new variable with properties {name:"currentHour", value:""}
   end if
   set the value of variable "currentHour" to hour as integer
   
   
   -- set "rampLightsPartially"
   if not (variable "rampLightsPartially" exists) then
      make new variable with properties {name:"rampLightsPartially", value:false}
   end if
   
   if (hour > 1 and hour < 4) then
      set the value of variable "rampLightsPartially" to true
   else
      set the value of variable "rampLightsPartially" to false
   end if
end tell

You could do this without AppleScript by creating 2 Time/Date Actions that execute Modify Variable Value actions.

Or, you could just have an AppleScript condition on the trigger that brightens from 25% to 100% that looks something like this:

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set theHour to hours of (current date)
if (theHour > 4) then
   return true
else
   return false
end if


Then you wouldn't need a variable or any other things.