Variable in expression

[coconutxyz]

Hi guys I am stuck with trying to assign a variable inside an expression.

My current flow using hotword plugin

Condition: value = "meditate for {meditateduration} minutes"

Action: script : meditateduration = getDurationString(duration*60000)

Action: set timer {meditateduration}

As expected it doesn't work lol since the whole expression looks weird. Any help please..

[tsolignani]

Post the flow please.

[coconutxyz]

My bad

[tsolignani]

It seems all wrong to me, what are you trying to do?

[coconutxyz]

lmao is it that bad?

it works if i am using autovoice with the command (?:meditate|meditation) for (?<duration>[0-9]+) (?:minute|minutes) which i believe is regex.

then i will run a script to times the duration with 60000 to convert it to minutes then set a timer for the converted duration.

since i no longer use autovoice and changed to hotword plugin now, i am trying to assign a variable {meditateduration} within the expression using the hotword plugin whose variable is {value}.

[tsolignani]

I'm not sure I understood what you said, anyway, I guess you cannot assign values to a variable into an expression but just evaluate it with a double equal sign, if you have to populate a variable you have to use a script.

[Micky Micky]

You can assign variables in an expression but you still need something to check at the end.

[Micky Micky]

The flow is confusing.

If the variable {value} that you are passed from elsewhere contains the number of minutes e.g. 1 then you can set the timer to:

{value}m

Hope this is of some help to you .

[Micky Micky]

If the variable {value} contains the number within a message then regex is the way to extract just the number.

I don't understand regex, but this crude method works.

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value = "I said 12 minutes";
minutes = replace (join (findAll (value, "\\d"), ","), ",", "");

Good luck

[coconutxyz]

thanks for everyone's help

still cant find the solution but i have included the full flow

flow_Flow4_20200101_132628.xml

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