Writing times without quotes in appdaemon.yaml gives me a TypeError like the following:
my_app:
constrain_start_time: 20:00:00
The traceback:
2017-07-19 22:03:58.495332 WARNING Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 775, in process_message
process_state_change(data)
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 726, in process_state_change
callback["kwargs"]
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 664, in check_and_disapatch
"kwargs": kwargs
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 258, in dispatch_worker
if not check_time_constraint(config[name], name):
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 244, in check_time_constraint
if not ha.now_is_between(start_time, end_time, name):
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/homeassistant.py", line 132, in now_is_between
start_time = parse_time(start_time_str, name)
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/site-packages/appdaemon/homeassistant.py", line 80, in parse_time
parts = re.search('^(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)', time_str)
File "/srv/hass_0_48/lib/python3.4/re.py", line 166, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: expected string or buffer
Changing to include quotes in the YAML file:
my_app:
constrain_start_time: "20:00:00"
and it works. I thought that values in YAML that contained non-number characters (i.e. the colon) would be interpreted as strings. All appdaemon examples have the time strings without quotes… Anyone have any ideas?
I’m using Home Assistant v0.49.0 (despite the path name 
and appdaemon 2.0.4b2 on Raspbian jessie (8.0) with Python 3.4.2 and PyYAML v3.12
Edit: Can’t find the checkmark to mark the thread solved so I edited the title instead…
