[solved]A rule that stores the result in a variable filename

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Hello again,

I store some results of pimatic in a logfile with this rule:

if
PIR Garage reports present
then
execute “date +’%d.%m.%Y %H:%M - PIR Garage’ >> /mnt/devices/ereignisse.log”

Now I want to create a new logfile every day for example like this “Ereignisse_2016-06-02”. I try it in the console with:

date +’%d.%m.%Y %H:%M - PIR Garage’ >> /mnt/devices/ereignisse_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log

and it’s works well. But if I use it with a this rule

if
PIR Garage reports present
then
execute “date +’%d.%m.%Y %H:%M - PIR Garage’ >> /mnt/devices/ereignisse_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log”

there it an error

error [pimatic]: Could not find an provider that provides the next action of “execute “date +’%d.%m.%Y %H:%M - PIR Garage’ >> /mnt/devices/ereignisse_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log””

you cannot set an expression as variable, don’t you?
so if you are having a date device you can use the variable of this as part of the logfile name
date +’%d.%m.%Y %H:%M - PIR Garage’ >> /mnt/devices/ereignisse_$date.log

{
  "id": "date",
  "name": "System date",
  "class": "ShellSensor",
  "attributeName": "date",
  "attributeType": "string",
  "attributeUnit": "",
  "command": "date +%Y-%m-%d",
  "interval": 60000
}

Thanks leader21

I create the date device as in your example and change the rule. Now it’s work well.

nice to hear! i will set this as solved.
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