ojourmel / selfcheck

Simple alarm app

selfcheck

A badly implemented front end to cron.
Used as a front end to my alarm clock runing off a raspberry pi.

Installing

1. git clone https://github.com/ojourmel/selfcheck.git <HTTP_ROOT>
2. http://localhost

Selfcheck should work in any subfolder of your webserver.

Dependencies

• PHP
• cron
• Javascript enabled browser
• Internet access for CDN dependencies
  • Semantic-UI
  • jQuery
  • jquery-timepicker

Hacking

• CDN libraries can be downloaded localy and sourced in index.html to remove Internet access requirement.
• JS code is located in /js
• PHP code is located in /php

Limitations

• The backend stores individual items as 'checks'. This is done using flat text files that are index in an array using their file name. As a result, removing, or reordering these 'checks' is non-trivial. This is a huge pain point. As a result, reordering items is not supported, and deleting items causes backend refreshes of cron.
• This implementation assumes the http user (or whatever user the php code is executed as) has access to a crontab, and that the crontab is not used by anything else. This crontab is freqenetly blown away as items are added and removed.
• Mobile support is not great.

License

• 3-Clause BSD