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After you render the web image, I’ve been using it this way:

pixlet push <deviceID> myApp MyAppInstallationID -b --api-token <apiKey>

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On the public repo idea. 2 possible ways:

  1. A public repo we all push our apps to: could get messy as more apps are developed but easiest to implement
  2. I don’t know if the tidbyt is OTA upgradeable but an update that would allow for both homebrew vs. approved apps could be interesting. Homebrew apps would require a repo URL to be made available ie
    pixlet push myApp MyinstallationID HTTP://GITHUB.com/myrepo -b api-token

For approvals, you’d submit your app repo and tibdyt could decide whether or not to add it to the mobile app for push via the more traditional app channel.

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When I try your way with -b it says that it is not supported

I tried several different ways to publish but it seems impossible

Is this the way it should look?
pixlet push --api-token “123456” “abcd” examples/bitcoin.webp “TestID”

Thanks in advance

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This is what works for me:
pixlet push <deviceID> MyApp.webp <installationID> -b --api-token <apiToken>

So in your example, I would try (assuming abcd is your device ID):
pixlet push abcd examples/bitcoin.webp TestID -b -api-token 123456

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If -b is not supported, you may be running an old version of pixlet and should update.

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That was the trick, it jumped many versions

Thanks

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I really struggled with getting cron to work this docker example. I switched to yacron and it works great!

Sharing for those interested.
More on yacron:
gjcarneiro/yacron: A modern Cron replacement that is Docker-friendly (github.com)

My Dockerfile:

FROM golang:bullseye

ENV WEBP_VERSION libwebp-1.2.2-rc1

ENV REPO=$GOPATH/src/github.com/tidbyt/pixlet

RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y ca-certificates tzdata openssl libwebp-dev bash virtualenv

RUN git clone https://github.com/tidbyt/pixlet.git $REPO && cd $REPO && make build

RUN virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 /yacron && \
        /yacron/bin/pip install yacron

COPY yacrontab.yaml /etc/yacron.d/yacrontab.yaml
COPY pixlet_app_file.star /lmflag.star
COPY do_pixlet.sh /do_pixlet.sh

ENTRYPOINT ["/yacron/bin/yacron"]

My yacrontab.xml file (which runs every 5 minutes from 6am to 10pm:

defaults:
  environment:
    - key: PYTHONIOENCODING
      value: utf-8

jobs:
 - name: do_pixlet
    command: /do_pixlet.sh
    schedule: "*/5 6-22 * * *"
    captureStdout: false

do_pixlet.sh:

#!/bin/sh
/go/src/github.com/tidbyt/pixlet/pixlet render /pixlet_app_file.star > /proc/1/fd/1 2>/proc/1/fd/2 && /go/src/github.com/tidbyt/pixlet/pixlet push --api-token api_here --installation-id unique-app-name devicename /lmflag.webp -b > /proc/1/fd/1 2>/proc/1/fd/2

-Keith

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Anyone have this working on crontab on mac?

Solved:
Here’s how I sorted this out with crontab:

Crontab (I had it run every minute just as a test)
` * * * * * “/users/path/to/script.sh”

.sh script

#!/bin/sh
/opt/homebrew/bin/pixlet render /path/to/file.star;
/opt/homebrew/bin/pixlet push --api-token <api-token> \
--installation-id <installation id> <key> /path/To/file.webp;

** I installed via homebrew so I had to include path.

Allow crontab full disk access:

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Willing to share? This is awesome