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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I'm looking for a way to make a timer trigger, but I need to know how to tell the difference between trigger input and my input. What I want to do is make a trigger that, every X minutes, asks if I am still there. This is because I have a lot of auto triggers that will keep my logged in and not voiding, though that's not their intention. When I'm at the keyboard but multi-tasking, this is awesome. Last night, however, I fell asleep and forgot to log out, I was penned. And so I realized that I needed a way to make sure I was really there, or otherwise log out. However, since my triggers send input, simply working it from oninput would still lead me to the same issue since each trigger would reset the timer.

Is there anything I can do?

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:56 pm

Short answer: no

Long answer: yes, make it based on something that the triggers don't send, either by compiling a list of things that your triggers might do and triggering on anything that isn't on that list, or by requiring a specific input from you, like "dzfjartfg".

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Thanks.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:03 am

Why not have an alarm do #PROMPT to ask you if your still there and if you don't respond then log you out? You should be able to use an #ONINPUT trigger to reset it.

Another approach is to set a very long Tick Timer, use #ONINPUT to call #TSET to keep it high when you entering from the command line. And you can have the Timer command disconnect directly if it runs out, or at do the prompt.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I can do those, certainly. I was just hoping to have it reset whenever I put in input. But, if I did that, then it would also fire for triggers.