[Dxspider-support] Local announcement not appearing to users

[cienti at cienti.com]

Hi Keith,

If I'm not wrong, you need to include some variability to the message in 
order to be shown and not considered a duplicate.

 From http://www.dxcluster.org/main/cron.html


   # some people like to do an hourly announce to say who they are. There 
is a
   # slight complication about this because of the announce duplicate 
checking
   # so you need to make each announce unique. I do this by adding a date 
and time
   # stamp on the end

   0 * * * * run_cmd('ann CLUSTER: GB7DJK JO02LQ at ' . cldate . ' ' . 
ztime)

CieNTi


On 2024-06-08 14:41, Keith Maton via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> My node is going to be down for a few hours next week and I wanted to
> set up an announcement in my cron to let people know.
> 
> I set up a single line like this and it worked.
> 
> But it only worked once.
> 
> 20 * * * * run_cmd("Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June 
> 07:00z-14:00z”)
> 
> The announcement only appeared on connected users once.
> 
> So I figured that perhaps there’s some kind of de-duplication to block
> the same announcement from appearing multiple times.
> 
> To get around this, I changed the wording slightly and edited my
> crontab accordingly to send the two announcements alternately, one
> hour apart.
> 
> 20 01,03,05,07,09,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * run_cmd("Announce
> Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June 07:00z-14:00z")
> 
> 20 02,04,06,08,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,00 * * * run_cmd("Announce
> Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June from 07:00z to 14:00z”)
> 
> Watching my debug log at 11:20z, the following appeared.
> 
> 1717845601^(cron) cron: LOCALTIME 20 12 8 6 6 -> doing
> 'run_cmd("Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June from 07:00z to
> 14:00z")'
> 1717845601^(cron) DXCron::run_cmd: Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on
> 10th June from 07:00z to 14:00z
> 1717845601^(progress) ANNTALK: G6NHU-2 at G6NHU-2 via LOCAL -> *
> 'Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June from 07:00z to 14:00z' route:
> G6NHU-2
> 1717845601^(progress) CMD: 'Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June
> from 07:00z to 14:00z' by G6NHU-2 ip: 127.0.0.1 10mS
> 
> And the announcement showed in my console window.
> 
> To LOCAL de G6NHU-2: Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June from 07:00z to 
> 14:00z
> 
> An hour later, the following showed in my debug log at 12:20z.
> 
> 1717849201^(cron) cron: LOCALTIME 20 13 8 6 6 -> doing
> 'run_cmd("Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June 07:00z-14:00z")'
> 1717849201^(cron) DXCron::run_cmd: Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on
> 10th June 07:00z-14:00z
> 1717849201^(progress) ANNTALK: G6NHU-2 at G6NHU-2 via LOCAL -> *
> 'Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June 07:00z-14:00z' route: G6NHU-2
> 1717849201^(progress) CMD: 'Announce Downtime for G6NHU-2 on 10th June
> 07:00z-14:00z' by G6NHU-2 ip: 127.0.0.1 2mS
> 
> But nothing showed in my console window and the client I have logged
> on didn’t show the announcement.
> 
> Crontab is processing the announcement correctly but it’s not being
> showed to connected users.
> 
> Is this an intentional de-duplication or is something broken?  If the
> former, it’s not working quite properly because the text isn’t
> identical.
> 
> I’ve now changed the wording even more to see if it makes any 
> difference.
> 
> 73 Keith
> 
> 
> 
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