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If I set MX (build 3036) to Tweet in intervals of 1 (assuming minutes) it will Tweet.

I want to tweet every six hours so set the interval to 360 but it never tweets.

I'll start experimenting with the number to see if I can find a fail point, however is anyone else using auto tweet in MX with a longer interval?
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Re: Twitter timer

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FWIW I have mine set at 120 and has been/is working fine. (on MX)
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Do you ever close MX down? Any 'non-synchronised' interval for any Cumulus action first takes place at the configured interval from when Cumulus started. A 'synchronised' interval is an interval in minutes which is a factor of 60.

I hope to add a more sophisticated scheduling mechanism eventually, so for example you could schedule updates every six hours on the clock - 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 etc - perhaps that's what you were expecting with your 6 hour interval?
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I haven't shut down MX in several days. I will restart it and see what happens for the 360
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Assuming you have debug logging on, there should be messages about updating Twitter in the diags file, and any errors logged in there anyway.
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There was nothing in the standard logging. I've turned on debugging and I set the interval for Twitter to five mins -- which worked. I've now set it to 360 and will report back tomorrow.

FYI : MX has not been restarted since 31 Dec
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Nothing in the debugging logs either.

It Tweeted at 7:45pm last night then nothing after that. I'd have expected something around 1:45am and 7:45am. I've searched the log file and there's no mention of 'Twitter' after 7:45pm.

It's almost as if Cumulus forgets/resets the timer at some point. :o
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It definitely doesn't do that. Having changed the interval to 360, did you restart MX? Some settings changes currently require that.
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steve wrote:It definitely doesn't do that. Having changed the interval to 360, did you restart MX? Some settings changes currently require that.
No, I never needed to restart when I was changing the interval from 1, 5, 10 etc. I will restart it now and see how it goes.
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Changing from a 'synchronised' value to a non-synchronised value will currently require a restart, to start the timer.
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Just to finish off the thread....I'm delighted to report that my 360 minutes interval does work if I restart Cumulus.
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