Thanks Stef, this app is just a quick hack but I already can stop the wifi from my phone and I feel like I have new negociations superpowers... Thanks Hernán ! That's a perfect fit :) On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:24 PM Hernán Morales Durand < hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/Scheduler

Cheers,

Hernán

2017-09-13 17:36 GMT-03:00 Daniel BLANC <daniel.blanc@gmail.com>:

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Hi All,

I'm a very beginner with smalltalk. I am building a small seaside app for controlling wifi access of my teenagers kids. In this app I need to start or stop the wifi acces at a given time. For the moment I'm doing it with an infinite loop in a process, with this code:

WifiController >> startScheduler ^ SchedulerProcess ifNil: [ SchedulerProcess := [ [ true ] whileTrue: [ self schedulerApplyAutoStartStopRules. 56 seconds wait ] ] forkNamed: 'DanWifiManagerScheduler' ]

I'm wondering if there is a way to do this without this infinite loop ? May be there is a class in the standard pharo image that can execute a code block at a given time ?

Thanks, Daniel

once you are done please share it. You see I'm good in deep little details but I often lack other knowledge :) On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Daniel BLANC <daniel.blanc@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Stef, this app is just a quick hack but I already can stop the wifi from my phone and I feel like I have new negociations superpowers...

Thanks Hernán ! That's a perfect fit :)

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:24 PM Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:

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http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/Scheduler

Cheers,

Hernán

2017-09-13 17:36 GMT-03:00 Daniel BLANC <daniel.blanc@gmail.com>:

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Hi All,

I'm a very beginner with smalltalk. I am building a small seaside app for controlling wifi access of my teenagers kids. In this app I need to start or stop the wifi acces at a given time. For the moment I'm doing it with an infinite loop in a process, with this code:

WifiController >> startScheduler ^ SchedulerProcess ifNil: [ SchedulerProcess := [ [ true ] whileTrue: [ self schedulerApplyAutoStartStopRules. 56 seconds wait ] ] forkNamed: 'DanWifiManagerScheduler' ]

I'm wondering if there is a way to do this without this infinite loop ? May be there is a class in the standard pharo image that can execute a code block at a given time ?

Thanks, Daniel

Hi All, Sorry for the late answer, I've been swallowed by a vortex of "too much work at my day job". Regarding the magical power of smalltalk, I definitely agree with that. I've been playing with different programming languages for 30 years now, and smalltalk programming is so refreshing, it's almost like manipulating real physical objects, the process of building an app feels way more creative this way. Regarding my quick hack for managing the wifi at home, unfortunately there is not so much smalltalk magic involved. Pharo is just used as a UI to launch shell scripts on a linux server. This server is inbetween a wifi access point and the ISP router. So, as you probably have guessed, all the wifi traffic goes trough this server, then it's easy to use the linux firewall (iptable) to allow/deny traffic. I'll continue playing/hacking on this small app and I'll publish the end result. Thanks All, Daniel On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 7:18 PM Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Daniel BLANC <daniel.blanc@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks Stef, this app is just a quick hack

Quick hacks are still often interesting reading and useful starting points for others. I've often thought of doing something like this for my kids but never got around to it.

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but I already can stop the wifi from my phone

I'm interested to know what you use for that also.

cheers -ben