Timer that writes messages from list?

[aldwyns]

Currently the channel I manage has 8 different text messages that we like for Nightbot to post at regular intervals.

However, the way the timer is made seems to make this a bit hard, unless I have misunderstood something.

Say I want to have 8 different chat messages from Nightbot, with 5 minutes interval.
Is there any way to do this?

Could I have Nightbot cycle through a list of messages somehow?

Thanks for the help.

-Aldwyns

[Aaron128l]

Sorry but Nightbot doesn’t offer this kind of functionality. You can set different timers to occur at different times which might have the effect your looking for on a lower scale…

[aldwyns]

Thanks for the reply.

I wouldn’t mind to much if I could set specific times, and not repeating within the hour times. So if I could say message “X” at xx:15, “Y” at xx:30 and “Z” at xx:45, that would be fine.

But if i ask it for 15, it will repeat every 15 minutes , and hit at the same times at the two others as well correct?

How do others solve this problem, am I just going about it wrong?

[night]

Our timers operate on cron syntax, so if you use our API you can specify specific times for execution in cron syntax. Unfortunately because cron is not user-friendly, we do not expose the raw syntax for editing via our website.