Is it possible to create a job which sends a mesage to Hubot itself in order to execute a command? I tried it and could not get it to work.

I am trying to figure out how to get this cron script to run another already written hubot script. I tried to just run the message "hubot do this" but of course the messages from itself are ignored. Is there a way to not have this specific message ignored, or run another already written script?

I'm running hubot on heroku which is set to UTC and it would be great to be able to set the cron jobs to run on PST.

After using this plugin for a few days (awesome, btw!) - a recurring pattern on every job is to update the timezone to our local timezone. It would be really nice to be able to configure a default tz for every job that's created (although you could still override manually).

I was thinking this could be done by setting a HUBOT_CRON_DEFAULT_TZ environment variable. If this is set, during job creation, it could just call out to the update tz method automatically.

If I create a cron to run "Happy Hour!" at 2:15, will hubout say "Happy Hour!" in all, in my case, hipchat rooms that it is a part of? or just in the room where the cron what initially created?

I'm getting an error after setting up a new cron job via Slack. It's set up to send messages to a public room called #development.

e.g:

hubot new job 0 10 * * 1-5 "It's time for standup, folks!"

458293: 0 10 * * 1-5 @C033R5PHW "It's time for standup, folks!"

The job worked fine for a few days but now I can see the following error in the logs:

2015-02-05T10:00:00.802614+00:00 app[web.1]: Sending message
2015-02-05T10:00:01.575453+00:00 app[web.1]: Slack services error: 500
2015-02-05T10:00:01.575612+00:00 app[web.1]: Invalid channel specified

Any idea how I can resolve this?

Thanks.

Looks like the library needs a version bump so that npm picks up the support for timezones and silenced job announcement

Great documentation on getting the ability to set up a cronjob in hubot. Is it possible to setup a cronjob to hubot perform a function?

Usually hubot listens for a user command to respond with some text. Can this cronjob output the same text (trying to eliminate the user input to make hubot respond).

Not sure what the problem could be, but I just added the script to our Slackbot, and it adds jobs but never executes on the reminders (even after changing time zones, etc.). Is this script still working?

Our group chat does not require authentication, so the bot connects over XMPP HOST:PORT. If I create a cron in the group chat, right at the time when the cron should run, the bot restarts itself.

It works if I open a private chat with the bot.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

I'm using hubot-cron with redis-cache as brain.

After a restart, the job is non-functional: list jobs shows the following:

530784: 05 10 * * 1-5 @undefined "message"

We have setup a cron message and we have found that it always posts twice.

The first was 3:59:58 PM and the second was at 4:00:00 PM which is the time the job was scheduled to send