Date() and/or Time() functions available in Polyscript?

BlueSkyMast 2020-05-15

I am trying to keep an accurate account of the quantity of parts the robot loads unloads, daily, weekly etc. The issue is if the robot is turned off I have no way of knowing how long it was turned off. Does anyone know of a way to read the current Date/Day of Week/time etc so it can be stored in a global variable so the last date and time the robot was tuned on I would know? Cheers and thanks for any direction.

matthewd92 2020-05-16

@BlueSkyMast there are no built-in time functions within URScript. One way you could do that is to record your part counts to the logs using the textmsg() function. The function allows you to insert two parameters so you could have something like

textmsg(“Part(s) Made “, numOfPartsMade)

The messages would be time stamped with the exact time that they are sent to the log. You could use those time stamps to track when the parts are made.

You could then use t hese tools to monitor the logs, you would get automatic backups of all the files including logs and could then extract that data from them. Analytics are coming shortly and would allow you to see custom analytics in the mobile app which would allow you to track your production. With the release that came out yesterday you can now also see in real time all the variables in your program, status of the built-in IO and streaming logs. You can also see in the app when the robot is playing, paused, stopped, or powered off.

BlueSkyMast 2020-05-16

Thank you again Matthew!