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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..

Post the flow please.

My bad

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

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}.

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.

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

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 .

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.
Good luck

thanks for everyone's help

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