QML Timers longer than 10 minutes?

Applications QML
#1

This more an observation on which I’m interested in other people’s thoughts and solutions:

I’ve recently made two apps both of which use QML Timers to query / poll an external resource regularly.

The first app defaulted to 10 minutes and I didn’t notice any irregularities, but the second app defaulted to a poll once every 2 hours and then I noticed it wasn’t polling at all until I lowered the polling time to every 10 minutes (or lower) as well.

Is this a familiar topic for others? I don’t really want to poll the service as often as every 10 minutes.

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#2

Have you considered using Nemo Keepalive BackgroundJob instead?
https://sailfishos.org/develop/docs/nemo-qml-plugins-keepalive/qml-nemo-keepalive-backgroundjob.html/

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#3

Nope, but I will thanks!

I’m still in the phase that I’m happy that I actually released two (kinda) working apps.

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#4

A wild guess without any knowledge: when screen blanks, it pushes the app on background making the cover the only active part. The timer pauses if it’s not in the cover.

#5

timers paused because of sleep. power management stuff :)))
use keepalive module as suggested above.

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#6

Yup, been there when I released the Kitchen Timer app 6 yrs ago and it only worked for a few minutes :smiley: Nemo Keepalive BackgroundJob wasn’t available, so I had to make a QML module using libiphb.
Still using it out of pure laziness :wink:

#7

I solved my timer problem with timedclient-qt5 in my app Rush Hour. (https://github.com/Rikujolla/trafficviewer) Keepalive came later and seems to be better tool nowadays. Have to use it next time.