pimatic-quote-of-the-day does not update

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Hey,

i have installed the plugin but it does not update the quote automatically. Only if i restart pimatic i got a new quote…

Regards daice

Hey @daice,

This is because I do not know of a way to do this with ‘clean’ code. A 24 hour timeout would be really dirty.

As a solution to this problem you can add an extra rule in Pimatic.

I’m using this:
when its 03:00 update quote quote with "quote"
(the second quote is the name of my quote device… does not make it more readable haha sorry)

Let me know if this works

@Tim said in pimatic-quote-of-the-day does not update:

This is because I do not know of a way to do this with ‘clean’ code. A 24 hour timeout would be really dirty.

maybe @mwittig could take a quick look and give a hint (only if you’re having some spare time marcus …)

@leader21 I think the approach taken by @Tim is okay. It is much easier to use the scheduling mechanics as part of the rule system than calculating the appropriate timeout value for a long running setTimeout (assuming you always want to update the quote at about the same time once a day no matter about when has pimatic has started). On the other hand using long running timers should not be an issue. I don’t think this it will cause performance penalties. If fancied I can implement a scheduler for the quote plugin.

Oh well, then it should be fine.
@tim what about putting this rule for update to the readme?
Then it should be of no problem anymore.

@mwittig @leader21 Thanks guys for brainstorming with me. I could implement a timeout… If you’re sure this has not performance issues. Does NodeJS offer something for scheduling?

Also good idea to put this into the docs, I’ll add it.

@Tim,

thanks, its working.

Couldn’t you simply add a function which checks every 10 minutes or so if the date has changed? This should not produce any noticeable load.
In my opinion such a plugin should work without manually creating a rule.