small cron module for espruino

Posted on Thu 8th, December 2016

• #1

pbrandt1

https://github.com/pbrandt1/espruino-cron

One interesting thing I noticed when writing this module is that using Array.sort on arrays larger than about 50 elements didn't work on the esp8266 wemos that I use, so I just wrote a custom sort function that does work.

I'm new, and I'd like that thank everyone for making espruino so beginner-friendly :)
• #2

Ollie

That's cool. Can you kick off multiple jobs? Is there a limit? I will be trying!
• #3

Gordon

That looks great! Thanks!
• #4

pbrandt1

Ollie, yes you can register multiple cron jobs, but I haven't tested the limits of how many fit in memory, or tested how much load it can handle before the somewhat naive scheduler starts missing triggers. I suppose it depends on your hardware. Happy hacking!
• #5

MaBe

Wow - I like it - thanks for sharing !

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