I'm a relatively new Hubitat user but I've been doing a lot with Rule Machine. I had a few suggestions that I thought might make the notifications even better than they already are.
First, I have some rules that trigger actions that are delayed by several minutes, and the delayed actions then send messages that include the time. It's actually a chain of 7 actions that each include the time. This may be a fringe use case, but the challenge I've had is that the %time% evaluates to the time of the event trigger so that each of the 7 actions, that are between 5-15 minutes apart, reference the original time of the trigger. I wish it would evaluate to the current time as each action occurs, or that there was a different variable like %current_time% that would evaluate to the current time.
Second, I think it would be great if you could put the current value of a Global Variable in the message. Something like %gv:MyGlobalVariable%.
Thanks very much for the quick response and for adding %now% to the next release. That will be great.
I created a global variable I called currenttime and set it to %time% with a rule on a periodic trigger that I run every 5 minutes. The global variable gets updated as expected. However, when I try to reference it in the message with %currenttime%, it doesn't get substituted. I also tried %var-currenttime% but that also didn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
In any case, looking forward to %now% once it's available.
