Using a sleep function with WiringPi / GPIO & other ?'s

[Brandon_K]

I'm building a few RPi's to have switch inputs which then send a push notification via Pushover to our team's cell phones.

The very basic code I have so far;

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#! /bin/bash
gpio mode 7 down

app="Panic Button Town"
message="KITCHEN"
title="PANIC BUTTON"
url=
url_title=
priority=
device=
sound= userkey=*mykeyhere*
apikey=*myAPIkeyhere*

while true
        do

        gpio wfi 7 rising
curl https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json -F token=$apikey -F user=$userkey -F message="Kitchen" -F title=$title -F sound=alien -F priority=1

done

The code works for all intents and purposes. But, I need to add a time delay before it will allow sending the http request to Pushover again. The primary reasons for this are button debounce and to stop the alerts from being constantly retriggered as these are being switched by locking E-stop buttons.

I've attempted my limited knowledge, lots of Google, import time, etc etc and I can't get any combination to work. I would like to put a 60 second delay on it before it would resend the http.

Help?

[ground_]

although i am nt compeltely sure what you want, this is maybe the solution:

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#! /bin/bash
import time
gpio mode 7 down

app="Panic Button Town"
message="KITCHEN"
title="PANIC BUTTON"
url=
url_title=
priority=
device=
sound= userkey=*mykeyhere*
apikey=*myAPIkeyhere*

while true
        do

        gpio wfi 7 rising
curl https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json -F token=$apikey -F user=$userkey -F message="Kitchen" -F title=$title -F sound=alien -F priority=1
        time.sleep(60)
        done

it littlerally let the script sleep for 60 seconds before it continous.

[Brandon_K]

I don't feel so bad anymore, as that is exactly what I was doing. When I have those 2 additional lines in there "Import time" "time.sleep(60)", this is what I get when I run it as ./panic

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pi@raspberrypi ~/panic $ ./panic
./panic: line 2: import: command not found
./panic: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `60'
./panic: line 20: `     time.sleep(60)'

If I run it as sudo python panic, I get this as a result;

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pi@raspberrypi ~/panic $ sudo python panic
  File "panic", line 3
    gpio mode 7 down
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm not sure why it's coming back as invalid syntax, as when it's run as ./panic or ./panic& , the script runs fine (without the time issues, at least)

[rpdom]

There has been some confusion because your script is written in Bash and not Python.
Remove the "import" line and change "time.sleep(60)" to "sleep 60".

Then run the code with "./panic".