Example: How to Use AppleScript and Time/Date Actions to Show Recent Logs in Indigo Touch

Though this isn't as good as a built-in option to view recent log activity within the Indigo Touch app (and web interface), it does allow you to view the last 5 lines of the log (this is adjustable), updated every minute. Note that this will only work with Indigo Pro.

Here's how to set it up. Create a new Time/Date Action within the Indigo 4 Pro client with the following parameters:

Name: Update Recent Activity Variables
Time/Date Trigger tab:

Time: Every 0 hours 1.00 minutes
Date: Every 1 days
Randomize by +/-: 0 minutes
Starts on: (make sure the date here is the current date).
CHECKED Suppress logging
NOT CHECKED Auto delete after trigger
Condition tab:

Upon trigger do actions Always
Actions tab:

Type: Execute AppleScript
Embedded


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set the ActivityLog to do shell script "tail -5 \"/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 5/Logs/indigo_log.txt\""
set the TotalNumberOfLines to the count of paragraphs in the ActivityLog
set the CurrentLine to 1
repeat while the CurrentLine is less than or equal to the TotalNumberOfLines
    set the TextOfTheCurrentLine to paragraph CurrentLine of the ActivityLog
    set the variableName to ("RecentActivity" & CurrentLine) as string
    if not (variable variableName exists) then
        make new variable with properties {name:variableName, value:TextOfTheCurrentLine}
    else
        set the value of the variable variableName to the TextOfTheCurrentLine
    end if
    set the CurrentLine to (the CurrentLine + 1)
end repeat



NOT CHECKED Delay by ... minutes.

If you want more than 5 lines, simply change the "-5" after the "tail" command on the first line of the AppleScript to the number of lines (and corresponding "RecentActivity#" variables) you want.

Allow the trigger to run at least once (which should happen within a minute after clicking the OK button in the new Time/Date Action dialog). This will create a "RecentActivity#" variable for each of the lines of log data. You can then go into the Control Pages section and edit an existing page (or create a new one) and place a new Variable Value object for each line of the log anywhere you like on the page. The variables will be named "RecentActivity1" through "RecentActivity5" (or up to whatever number of lines you set above).

NOTE that text does not wrap on control pages, so be sure your control page is wide enough to show all of each line.

That is very cool. Great idea.

This will get rid of the date stamp, which takes up a lot of room on the variable output. Change character start, currently at 12, to 20 or so if you want to get rid of the time too.

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set the ActivityLog to do shell script "tail -9 \"/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 6/Logs/indigo_log.txt\""
set the TotalNumberOfLines to the count of paragraphs in the ActivityLog
set the CurrentLine to 1
repeat while the CurrentLine is less than or equal to the TotalNumberOfLines
    set stringTextOfTheCurrentLine to paragraph CurrentLine of the ActivityLog as string
    set TextOfTheCurrentLine to (characters 12 through -1 of stringTextOfTheCurrentLine as string)
    set the variableName to ("RecentActivity" & CurrentLine) as string
    if not (variable variableName exists) then
        make new variable with properties {name:variableName, value:TextOfTheCurrentLine}
    else
        set the value of the variable variableName to the TextOfTheCurrentLine
    end if
    set the CurrentLine to (the CurrentLine + 1)
end repeat


edited for Indigo 6.

Nice modification, hamw. Very handy to not have the time stamps all the time.

The other thing I did was add a button to the top of the control page to execute the time date action so that the log would update immediately instead of having to wait a minute.

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execute time date action "Update Recent Activity Variables"


Oddly I am occasionally getting a bunch of colons in the spaces between numbers and words. A reboot of the server fixes it. Are you seeing the same thing?

Here's an example:

1:1:::3:1:::4:0: :W:e:b:S:e:r:v:e:r: :I:n:d:i:g:o: :T:o:u:c:h: :c:l:i:e:n:t: :c:o:n:n:e:c:t:e:d: :f:r:o:m: :1:0:.:0:.:1:.:2:0:0

any thoughts as to why this would happen? Otherwise this is a great script.

Add this line:

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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

at the top of the script and see if that helps. The line that cuts out the date is reassembling the string by using text item replacements and you probably have another embedded script that periodically runs that's setting the delimiter to ":". That would cause what you're seeing. No guarantee but I suspect that's it.

Right you are, Jay. In my script for setting a timer variable for a whole house alarm clock, the set text item delimiter is there.

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using terms from application "IndigoServer"
    set theCurrentDateTime to absolute trigger time of time date action "Radio WakeUP Actual WakeUp Time"
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
    set theTargetTime to value of variable "RadioWakeUpDisplay"
    set hours of theCurrentDateTime to (text item 1 of theTargetTime) as number
    set minutes of theCurrentDateTime to (text item 2 of theTargetTime) as number
    set absolute trigger time of time date action "Radio WakeUP Actual WakeUp Time" to theCurrentDateTime
    set the value of the variable "RadioWakeUpEnabled" to "Yes, Actual Time"
end using terms from


All fixed up!

If you have upgraded to Indigo 5,change the Indigo 4 in the first line to Indigo 5. Will work fine.

I've updated the script in the original post with your suggestion. Thanks.