How invoke a app in appdaemon

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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My purpose is to write a small code that I can call for signaling an alarm. Depending on the message I want to give I want the alarm to beep 3 or 5 or an other amount of times. So I made a small python app:

import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
from time import sleep
 
class verklikker(hass.Hass):
 
  def initialize(self): 
    self.listen_state(self.alarm_aan,"input_boolean.test", new="on")


  def alarm_aan (self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
    aantal = self.args["aantal"]
    self.turn_on("switch.alarm")
    for index in range(0,aantal):
      sleep(0.5)
      self.turn_on("switch.alarm")
      sleep(0.5)
      self.turn_off("switch.alarm")

The yaml file looks like this

verklikker3:            #any name you like.
  module: verklikker    #that was the name we used for our py file
  class: verklikker     #and this was the name from our class
  aantal: 3
  
verklikker5:            #any name you like.
  module: verklikker    #that was the name we used for our py file
  class: verklikker     #and this was the name from our class
  aantal: 5

How can I call ‘verklikker5’ instead of verklikker3?

Thanks

2

First, you should avoid “sleep” in your AppDaemon apps, expect if you are using AppDaemon 4 and async apps.

I don’t understand your use case exactly. Can you explain your end goal?

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3

depending on a situation I want to sound an alarm as a notification (1 time) or as a warning (3 times) or as an alert (10 times)

4

I think the best solution for this would be to change your alarm_aan method to accept a variable, which contains the number of times you want to sound the alarm.
Then in your other apps, that will use the alarm you use the appdaemon method “get_app” to the alarm app, to access the method alarm_aan.

5

Thanks for your reply.

I will do that.

In your previous message you advised not to use .sleep.
Is there another way to realize an pause of half a second?

6

Use run_in. From the AppDaemon documentation

Given the above, NEVER use Python’s time.sleep() if you want to perform an operation some time in the future, as this will tie up a thread for the period of the sleep. Instead use the scheduler’s run_in() function which will allow you to delay without blocking any threads.

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ok, but I have read that the smallest time interval is 1 second. Is this right?

8

Yes, this is right. If you really know what your are doing you can use sleep, otherwise it’s strongly suggested to not use it.

9

You can now call run_in() with as small an interval as you’d like (positive numbers only, of course), including “0” which means, run_in()… right now!

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10

Niiiice, didn’t know about this. Must have missed that change. Is this already available in 3.0.5 or only in 4?

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@Burningstone,

Only in 4.0 can you use floats.

Regards

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