Timer function on old Polyscope 1.8 Control

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Hi everyone,

I am pretty new to UR so maybe you guys have an easy fix for my problem, but I feel a bit like banging my head against the wall here.

So what I am trying to do here is basically to measure my cycle time and save this value into a variable.
We have another UR20 with seemingly a newer control. Here it works like a charm but that is most likely due to the fact that that controller has a ‘Timer’ function.

Well the UR20 I am trying to get going now does not.
Is there any way we can get this done without any crazy scripting? Because guess what? I suck at that :smiley:

Take care all

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Make a thread with a 1 second Wait. After each Wait, increase a variable by the value of 1. :slight_smile:

Then, at the start of your program, you reset the variable to 0. And then at the end of your program, you write the timer variable to another variable.

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ah okay that seems to work somehow.
Now it would be pretty important for me to get the timer value together with decimals. is that possible aswell?

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You can just make the Wait smaller. For example 0.1 seconds. :slight_smile:

Then you must divide your second variable by 10 to get your time with 1 decimal.

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yes okay thank you I got it done late yesterday but seems to be working fine now. slightly disappointing that the control cannot show decimals in the variables but that is something i can work with.
Thanks a lot I will mark this topic as done :slightly_smiling_face: