Holiday Script

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@dk00000 said:

question: why is the “holiday script” not a discrete plugin instead of three loose scripts??

The number of developers on pimatic is still relatively small and it is leisure time work for everybody. If you think this should be a plugin you can make feature request and contribute to it (requirements and conceptual ideas at least, if you don’t have software development skills).

As @leader21 mentioned the google calendard plugin this may be one approach to it. I am sure there are tools for importing to holiday schedules to google calendar (for example using ical-files http://de-kalender.de/icalendar).

Regarding the existing bash scripts I think this is a nice solution, but it is fragile - if the site structure changes the scripts are likely to break and need to be adapted. So, it would be better to use a REST web service for holidays.

I’m doing my best to understand github but the rest should be easy because in php I 've already finished…translation for pimatic should not be that problem…

@mwittig said:

Regarding the existing bash scripts I think this is a nice solution, but it is fragile - if the site structure changes the scripts are likely to break and need to be adapted. So, it would be better to use a REST web service for holidays.

Like this (http://holidayapi.com/, http://holidayapi.com/v1/holidays?country=gb&year=2015). But it only covers a few countries.

It’s under construction

pimatic-holiday

by the way:

there is a problem if you just parse for “port” IF you use a plugin with “a port” like kodi

@dk00000 & @temp

The following construct in ‘pimaticAPI.sh’ should make it more reliable.

pimatic_pwd=$(grep -B 2 -A 2 -w “\“role\”: \“admin\”” $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep -w “password” | awk ‘BEGIN{FS="\"";} {print $4;}’)

pimatic_port=$(grep -B 2 -A 2 -w “\“httpServer\”” $PIMATIC_CONFIG_FILE | grep “\“port\”” | awk ‘{print $2}’)

I`ve got some issues with pimaticand my new raspberry pi ,I changed from the borrowed one to my own one and realised today that the

 rpi-update 

command doesn’t work with raspberry-pi2 therefore I need to reinstall on monday my pi again first…sorry for the delay

just a quick hint:

the url is case sensitive and there is one F*** upper case letter:

http://www.ferienkalender.com/ferien_deutschland/Sachsen/2015-ferien-sachsen.htm

@MrSponti

seems that there is a mistake while grepping the public holiday from the url:
this ist my result:

"  -   Bu&szlig;- und Bettag</b></td><td align=right>Mittwoch 18.11.2015 "

could you help please

I remember that I faced similar problems while setting it up and changed the grepping.
here’s my phinfo for Hessen.
maybe it will help you when changing the string.
http://pastebin.com/C1HW5cru

@leader21
thanks chris, i will test it

@leader21
looks a little bit better but it shows still ß instead of ß
any ideas?

Not at the first glance.
seems to be the HTML format that is grepped and taken over 1:1 to the string variable of pimatic.

guess this will only happen at this holiday since I do not remember any other German holiday with special characters

edit: there’s Mariä Himmelfahrt and Heilige Drei Könige (sorry we don’t have them in Hessen therefore I wasn’t aware)

@leader21 said:

seems to be the HTML format that is grepped and taken over 1:1 to the string variable of pimatic.

Yes, special caracters in HTML are escaped this way - see also http://designerzone.de/html-umlaute-und-sonderzeichen/

May be you can integrate some conversion tool, e.g. html2text which is a package of its own with Debian, i.e. sudo apt-get install html2text

For the example above you will get the following:

pi@raspi2 ~ $ echo "  -   Bu&szlig;- und Bettag</b></td><td align=right>Mittwoch 18.11.2015 " | html2text -utf8
 - Buß- und Bettag
Mittwoch 18.11.2015