Subj : Re: Event Timing
To   : 2twisty
From : McDoob
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 12:28 pm

 2t> I set up my events for echomail polling according to the instructions
 2t> from MysticGuy's 5-year-old videos.
 2t> 
 2t> In the video, he says that using the settings he suggests will poll
 2t> every hour on the 5 minute mark...
 2t> 
 2t> However, my system is polling every 5 minutes -- WAAAAAAY too often.

Yeah, that's not good! Unless you're specifically trying to annoy your hub controller...

 2t> There isn't a good description or hint available as to what these fields
 2t> actually mean.  If I set "hour" to "1," does that mean run every hour
 2t> (and then 2 would mean every 2 hours) or does it mean run at 1AM?

Honestly, I'm not sure how to answer this, any more. There seems to be some changes in a47 compared to a46, and I *just* did the upgrade.

As I understand it, the 'hour' field is ignored when the event type is set to 'Hourly' or 'Semaphore'. It is definitely used as a 1-24 reference to a specific hour, when the event type is 'Shell' or 'Interval', because my weekly maintenance event happens at a specific time on a specific day.

However, I had a problem with my hourly poll events after the upgrade, and I'm still not sure why. I simply deleted them, and rebuilt them, and it 'just worked' after that...

For reference, all of my 'Hourly' and 'Semaphore' events have 0 for the hour value, and occur at the intended times.

McDoob
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