Solved Cron Job for Google Calendar Sync not working

[med1aaccess]

Hello,

one feature of the Easy!Appointments App is to sync appointments with Google Calendar. To automate this process you have to create a Cron Job.

https://easyappointments.org/2021/02/22/configuring-cron-jobs/

I have tried to add a crontab file in /app/data/, but this does not seem to work. In the Cloudron documentation I read about a scheduler addon that you can put in a Cloudron Manifest. But as far as I understand this is only used for when you are packaging your own app?

Is there any way I can add a Cron Job within the Easy!Appointments App container?

Thank you

Lukas

[nebulon]

@med1aaccess the current package does not come with cron or any other scheduler enabled. We will add this to the next package release then.

[nebulon]

I've added the cron-job support to run the sync command now. But before publishing the package, the upstream article you have linked uses a cron pattern to run once every hour. Is that what we want as well in the package? Further I don't have a google calendar to test this here locally, so while the sync command runs, it basically so far does nothing for me.

[med1aaccess]

Thank you for your quick response,

I think it would be useful to run the sync command more frequently, like every 5 minutes. I have tested the sync command successfully and it works as expected, I just wasn't able to automate it via a Cron Job.

[nebulon]

@med1aaccess ok. I have released a new app package with the cronjob run every 5min now.

[med1aaccess]

Thank you,

syncing every 5 minutes to Google Calendar is working now.

[nebulon]

@med1aaccess thanks for letting us know.