I have a circulation pump that I check, tie it on or off, and this is not some kind of fixed interval. For one day, which could give me a dataset similar to this, where βvalueβ means turning the pump on or off.
data=(
{'value': 0, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 7, 58, 25)},
{'value': 1, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 8, 0, 3)},
{'value': 0, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 8, 32, 10)},
{'value': 0, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 9, 22, 7)},
{'value': 1, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 9, 30, 58)},
{'value': 1, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 12, 2, 23)},
{'value': 0, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 15, 43, 11)},
{'value': 1, 'time': datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 18, 20, 14, 55)})
The format is not so important and can be changed.
I want to know how to calculate how many minutes (or time intervals or something else) 'value'were 0 or 1 (either ON or OFF)?
This is just a small sample of data, it stretched over several years, so it can be a lot. I use numpy / mathplotlib to plot some graphs, and there might be something in numpy for this, but I'm not good enough at that.
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0 04:42:13
1 07:34:17