Pulling data via NC Cron?

[Rello]

Hello,

congratulations to your app. nice effort.

I would like to know if you thought about a way to let the app (cron on NC) pull information - compared to the current push of the sensor itself.

one possible case: track your download statistics in git. currently i am checking on a daily basis the statistics
(e.g. https://api.github.com/repos/rello/audioplayer/releases) and read the "download_count": xxxx,
Afterwards I store it in an excel and create a pivot-chart

As this is perfectly structured information it might be interesting in some place in sensorlogger to define

• the url (e.g. https://api.github.com/repos/rello/audioplayer/releases)
• the array for the information (e.g. ['assets']['download_count'])

This information is then read regularly and added into the sensorlogger db (as cumulative value).
I would love to have an automated way to track the download stats which might in this case (think of a pull-template) be interesting for many app devs

anything ever thought about?

[alexstocker]

@Rello

Thanx for your interesting idea.
Background Jobs/CronJobs are scheduled for release 0.2.0. But there is still a long way to go.

Anyway. We could start talking about possible requirement. What do you think?

kindest
Alex

[Rello]

I think there are several steps to implement

• general cron framework
• 1st: UI to register cron-tasks
• 2nd: UI to assign different time schedules to cron-tasks (hourly/daily/weekly)
• UI to create custom cron-tasks as mentioned above and find a way to parse array values

...quite some job to do :-)