logging into a logfile and starting teams-monitor as a servivce

[binderth]

First of all, thanks for all the work, that's a great tool.

I'd like to use it completely "silent", as I tend to close all open programs showing in the taskbar! 😀
Is there a way to

• send the console output to a logfile?
• start the teams-monitor as a service and configure the options like "webhook" and "storage" in a configuration file?

That would be really helpful!
Thanks!

[svrooij]

No promises: https://twitter.com/svrooij/status/1725077020361572517?t=odgbtIpnc3kXVEOfWqGSSw&s=19

You can already configure the webhook through an environment variable and the storage is probably to be never changed.

Running as a Windows service is a pain in the *#!
So I think running this app as a taskbar app, but it's either badly documented or only works from .net framework and not .net core

[binderth]

You can already configure the webhook through an environment variable

Ah, sorry. Didn't catch that... Thanks. I hope it'll run in taskbar! 😉

[svrooij]

@binderth still no promises.... 😉

[svrooij]

🕵️

I seem to be getting somewhere

[binderth]

not to put mor pressure on it, I know, you're doing this as a fun spare time project...
but nevertheless: did you make any progress since? I'm happy to offer some testing for it! 😀

[BWalti]

I haven't tried it yet, but that documentation to create a Windows Service doesn't seem all to complex and weird?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/windows-service

[svrooij]

I'm more than happy to accept a PR, not actively working on this feature since I would not use it myself.

Having this as a notification area app seems more logical, but packaging is super annoying to fix. There is a working version in the repo, but packaging it in GitHub actions is unsuccessful so far.

[mvaneijken]

I would love to see it be able to run it from the system tray. As a work-arround I have installed it as a Windows Service using NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager: