Pause web service uploads.

[Mr-Blinky]

I was just thinking more about the question I asked about the empty space on the screen, which led me to grab a source and get the CPM up on an ESPG with OLED. The the next thing I thought about was which counter do I have with an OLED that isn't submitting to an online service, such as radmon.org. I have one that is just connected to the ESPG network and nothing else, so I used that.

I thought, what if there was some kind of button, or checkbox or something that would pause all online submissions, either for a time period or until it is pressed again, unchecked or something. During this time no online submissions are made. A pause symbol could be used on the display up at the top right by the other symbols.

I understand I could just go in config and uncheck the services that are being used, then recheck them again later, but a simple switch on the status page or something could make it more convenient.

Lets say I wanted to test a source or something, just for me so I don't need to record the counts I could get my source, pull up the ESPG web interface, click a button/check a box then sample my source and let the CPM climb. When I'm done and the CPM is back down, I uncheck/click again and it resumes submissions.

Generally wouldn't be an issue for me as I have loads of counters and quite a few around me/my desk at the moment with testing the new releases of ESPG, so I could probably always find a counter that doesn't submit. Some users on the other hand, may only have the one counter that submits online and I do see it quite a lot (from the alerts) on radmon.org that people may be testing sources or things. Their counts go right up for a few seconds, then back to normal.

This is just a thought, it doesn't need implementing, but I think would be a 'nice to have'. I would probably use it occasionally, but not often. Other users may use it. One caveat would be forgetting the submissions were paused although a pause symbol on the OLED and status page would make this apparent. If this was implemented then maybe a GPIO could be used in parallel with the web interface switch, and maybe make a spare (if there are any) GPIO go high when the submissions were paused?

Like I said, just a thought. Matters not (to me) if not implemented as I can work around it. But it's an idea and I like to share ideas. 😉

[steadramon]

I like it :)

[Mr-Blinky]

What could I possibly reply with other than,

I like that you like it, and that feeds my mojo. 😊