Simple(?) module to send a notification every x minutes?

UncleRoger

@sdetweil
That worked! Thank you so much!

Now I am just being cheeky but if you are bored and want to add a feature, it would be great to be able to reset the timer based on a notification. (In my case, if MMM-Keypress sends a PAGE_INCREMENT notification to change pages, restart the timer from that point.)

Anyway, I am getting really close to having everything the way I want it and am hoping that I can build an actual frame for the mirror and mount it next week and I couldn’t have done it without all your help (and so many others, like @MMRIZE and everyone who wrote the modules I’m using.) So, really, thank you!

sdetweil

@UncleRoger done, git pull to update

if the notification received matches the configured notification restart the timer

UncleRoger

@sdetweil
You truly are amazing!

Am I right in thinking that if I change this:

      } else if(topic==this.config.notification){

to this:

      } else if(topic==this.config.resetNotification){

and put this in the config:

resetNotification: "DIFF_NOTIF",

in addition to the notification: setting, then I can have it reset when a different notification is received? And I’m assuming all modules get all the notifications?

This would be so that if someone comes up and pushed the button to switch to the info display close to the end of the timer, it will reset it so they have time to look at what they want.

UncleRoger

@sdetweil
I made that change and it does indeed work as I’d hoped. This is totally awesome!

Thank you!

sdetweil

@UncleRoger yes, make sure to add a default value in the defaults section

one could consider a list of notifications that cause reset, then you can search the list w includes()

as it’s a list, you could pre or postpend the notification to send to that list too

this stops the code from growing with other else clauses

resetNotifications:[]

in start maybe,
this.config.resetNotifications.unshift(this.config.notification)

that puts the actual notification of the front of the list

the in notificationReceived

if(this.config.resetNotifications.includes(notification)
resetTimer()

only one test

sdetweil

@UncleRoger said in Simple(?) module to send a notification every x minutes?:

And I’m assuming all modules get all the notifications?

yes, sendNotifications are broadcast to all modules

UncleRoger

@sdetweil
Do modules each have their own timer or does resetting the timer in one module affect another?

I ask because I have MMM-BackgroundSlideshow set to change pictures each hour and MMM-SendNotification set to send a notification to MMM-Pages to switch to page 1 every 5 minutes. But in this setup, the picture never changes. My hypothesis is that when SendNotification resets the timer after 5 minutes, that affects BGSS which then never gets to 1 hour to switch to the next picture.

If I change BGSS to change pictures every 1 minute (or less than 5 minutes), the picture does change as expected.

Mind you, it’s probably something I’ve done that’s screwed it up, but I figured I’d ask about this first just to eliminate it as the source of the issue.

MMRIZE

@UncleRoger
Unfortunately, BGSS is implementing suspend method to stop it’s timer. So when you page rotator hides BGSS, it’s timer doesn’t work.
If you have some knowledge of JS, you can make monkey-patch with MMM-ModuleMonkeyPatch to suspend method not to stop its timer.

UncleRoger

@MMRIZE
Hmmm… That’s actually a good behaviour, in my case. If it’s not being shown, there’s no need to be changing the picture.

But even when it’s not suspended, i.e., the picture is shown, it doesn’t change if its interval is greater than the SendNotification interval.

If i disable SendNotification and manually switch to the picture (i.e., unsuspend BGSS), it will happily switch pictures every hour.

MMRIZE

@UncleRoger
The module also implements “resume” method to reset timer, so if the module get shown, it may be reset.
But I’m not sure unless examining all three modules related.