Automatic Page Refresh

[alexanderpreston]

What would be the easiest way of implementing an automatic page refresh? For instance, every 10 minutes, for pages that don't automatically refresh their own data.

[petrosagg]

I think the easiest is using a wrapping page with an iframe and some js to recreate it every 10 minutes. Otherwise you can restart the browser by modifying the init script

[alexanderpreston]

Thanks for the response Petros. Is it feasible to use either of those two approaches whilst simultaneously allowing an environment variable to be set to control the duration of the refresh interval via the resin.io interface? Alex.

[petrosagg]

Yes, you can write a for loop or create a JS file that has the variable for the iframe option. echo "var TIMEOUT = ${TIMEOUT};" > config.js

[alexanderpreston]

If I am serving a remote page (where I don’t have control over the source) is wrapping it in an iframe the only option here?

[petrosagg]

No, you can also kill the browser and bring it back up at the interval you want. Not exactly a refresh though