Reset Scheduled Task Timers?

[Netfool 20]

If I have a task scheduled to trigger hourly, does running the task manually reset the clock?

[Luke 42078]

Hi, no, each trigger is independent of the others, including invoking it manually.

[Netfool 20]

16 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, no, each trigger is independent of the others, including invoking it manually.

Does restarting the server reset the timer?

[Luke 42078]

Yes.

[Netfool 20]

AHA!! Excellent!

So this is a work-around to the problem that generated my feature request for better flexibility in scheduling tasks. 

It's would still be great to be able to schedule library scans on individual libraries rather than having to scan tens of terabytes of library frequently.

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 hours ago, Netfool said:

It's would still be great to be able to schedule library scans on individual libraries rather than having to scan tens of terabytes of library frequently.

I guess that depends on your setup but one library could still be tens of terrabytes. 

[Netfool 20]

2 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

I guess that depends on your setup but one library could still be tens of terrabytes. 

Sure, but my issue is that I have a library of content that is continuously updated.  From about 5 AM to 9 PM the Channels DVR and HDHR are adding programs to it.  A library scan is needed to make that content visible to the Emby Clients, so that content is in it's own library.  Library scans are expensive on the underpowered Linux box. (That's now my production server because I got tired of having to reinstall the server on the Nvidia Shield Pro).  Running a full scan of all the libraries takes about 2 minutes.  The library that's constantly being filled is only about 100GB (because old programs get pruned) and scans take less than 20 seconds. 

Edited September 2, 2020 by Netfool

[Happy2Play 9780]

I'm not familiar with Linux but can't you just run a script to update that library however often you want?

curl -X POST "http://yourserver:8096/emby/Items/{libraryid}/Refresh?Recursive=true&MetadataRefreshMode=Default&ImageRefreshMode=Default&ReplaceAllMetadata=false&ReplaceAllImages=false&api_key={your api key}" -H "accept: */*"