Simon B. StøvringJul 27, 2024
I wish the Calendar app had a Control Center button that showed the current date. I suppose I could build it myself now.
Show threadSimon B. StøvringJul 27, 2024

Prototyped the Control Center button I’d like. It’s dead simple.

Now, will iOS actually refresh my control often enough for this to provide utility? I doubt it, but I will find out through testing. If not, I’ll have to update it through push notifications, and I probably don’t want to go down that route.

Show threadSimon B. StøvringJul 28, 2024
My Control Center button didn't update the date it displays during the night. It wasn't updated until I interacted with the button. So, having this ControlValueProvider isn't enough for it to update its value periodically. I guess I'll need to send the device a push notification every hour or so to have the date updated.
Show threadSimon B. Støvring

Can't seem to get a Cloudflare Worker to make a request to APNS. I keep getting "Network connection lost". I've already wasted an hour trying to figure out why it refuses to connect to APNS. Maybe it's not communicating via HTTP2?

Anyway, this might be the end of this little project. I can't justify pouring hours upon hours into it.

Jul 28, 2024 at 12:07pmIvory for Mac
Show threadNikhil NigadeJul 28, 2024
@simonbs I couldn’t get this to work either. I instead used AWS Lambda. Works reliably from there.
Show threadSimon B. StøvringJul 28, 2024
@nikhil Good to know I'm not the only one who's been struggling with this. I'm not really up for tackling the complexity of AWS right now 😄
Show threadNikhil NigadeJul 28, 2024

@simonbs completely understand.

Should you take this up in the future, that’s the way to go.

Show threadKyle BashourJul 28, 2024
@simonbs deploy a tiny vapor project to a digital ocean app, it’s very easy with the template docker file!
Show threadSimon B. StøvringJul 28, 2024
@kylebshr That could work but so far I have all my hobby projects like this on Cloudflare and I don't think this project is important enough for me to get acquainted with new services.
Show threadGSalaJul 28, 2024
@simonbs @kylebshr
If it's just a small Cron job that calls an endpoint, maybe something simple like trigger.dev or even val.town could work 🤔
I haven't tried https://trigger.dev but I've considered as an alternative to very simple Workers.
Trigger.dev | Open source background jobs with no timeouts.

Build and deploy reliable background jobs with no timeouts and no infrastructure to manage.

Show threadMaxJul 28, 2024
@simonbs do you need a server for this? Wouldn’t local scheduled notifications do the trick too?
Show threadSimon B. StøvringJul 28, 2024
@madmaxbln Haven't tested it but I doubt it. A Control Center widget gets its own push token and registers independently of the host app. To update the content of the widget, servers should send a notification directly to the widget.