cpvalente
Timer 2 seconds off
When starting short 5 or 30 second event. The clock starts at "set time" - 2 seconds and then when time is running low timer goes -2 before the time is up. So counting is two seconds off, overall duration is ok.
Hi, thank you for taking the time to report this.
It is unclear to us what is actually being reported here.
From what I understand, you say that the event started 2 seconds before it should, meaning that it finished 2 seconds earlier. Is this correct?
If so, there are two ways the event can start
a) start with roll: with roll mode active, the event will start at schedule, give or take a few ms. we were unable to find any issues with this
b) start manually: this could well be the case and the issue here is in expectation. an event starts whenever it is started, unrelated to the schedule. In that sense, the schedule and the runtime are different things. If you were to start an event earlier, it would naturally finish earlier
Did any of these help? It may be that I misunderstood your question and there is some issue we should investigate, please let me know
I Hope this video explains this better https://photos.app.goo.gl/tEsvyPgGnHXFFqkw6
I Hope this video explains this better https://photos.app.goo.gl/tEsvyPgGnHXFFqkw6
Hi, thank you very much for this. It definitely clarifies
First thing I saw, is that you are in a very old version of the app. I would suggest that you upgrade if it is possible to you
From the rest there were two points that stood out
- progress bar is late
- there are 2 x 0 points
The progress bar animates over 1 seconds, so it is always a bit late. In this interface, the progress bar is completely cosmetic. The 0 time in Ontime is precise, regardless of this element. I will speed up the animation to improve this.
As for the double 0 seconds, what you see in Ontime's interface is a truncated time string with no rounding. ie 00m05s32ms is shown as 00m05s With that in mind, the countdown goes like +0m05.000 -> 00:05 (initial timer) +0m04.900 -> 00:04 (ticks every 32ms) ... +0m00.032 -> 00:00 -0m00.032 -> -00:00 ...
you can see here another thread where we discuss here https://github.com/cpvalente/ontime/issues/1025#issuecomment-2148242327
This to say, that this is something we spent a long time thinking about, and have opted for the current behaviour. However, if there is an inclination from users that our decision is incorrect, I am happy to bring this back to the table
We have made improvements to the time ticking in v4 which hopefully alleviate these comments