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Correct way to call Pythonista script from within a Shortcuts workflow?
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Thanks @7upser -- very helpful. I've been able to reproduce your example with the Pythonista Url scheme and the script is now found and launched correctly. However it jumps into/drops me into Pythonista proper. Is there a way to avoid that (i.e. just run the whole script in the background)?
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@felciano said:
just run the whole script in the background
I don't think that Pythonista can run in the background.
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You can Start a Shortcut with Pythonista:
import webbrowser vUrl = 'shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=testStartWithUrlScheme&input=10' webbrowser.get('safari').open(vUrl)
Maybe you can split your Shortcut into 2 different Shortcuts.
This should work, if you use Url Scheme on both sides.
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Hi everybody, I could call a Pythonista script from shortcuts using url and safari but it works only if the iPad is awake, is there a way to let it work when the iPad is asleep?
I also tried running a Pythonista script using scheduler but it works only if I stay in the Pythonista app.
What I want to achieve is writing some info into a file every hour -
@mikeno I don't know what you want to do while your IPad is asleep but Shortcuts offers automations. Perhaps that could help.
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Yes but only everyday, I want to read the value of the barometer sensor every hour, I can get this value with Pythonista. I didn’t find a way to get this information in shortcuts nor in JS (scriptable).
I found also a way to do some tasks every hour in shortcuts but I don’t find a way to get the barometer sensor value. -
@mikeno said
I found also a way to do some tasks every hour in shortcuts
But you could start a Pythonista script every hour?
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Yes, it works but only if the iPad is awake
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@mikeno did you try to run an automation at specified time, which runs a Pythonista short script logging the pressure in a file and put your IPad asleep some time before the specified time?
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@cvp I’m not sure to understand what you mean, but calling a pythonista script from a shortcuts or an automation requires the iPad to be awake
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@mikeno ok, I thought that calling the script from the shortcut did launch Pythonista even if iPad not awake. If you have Pyto, you could test because it runs really in background like a music player
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I don’t know PyTo but I will try, thx in any case
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@mikeno not Py To but Pyto, I think there is a free test version
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I just downloaded it but my trial period already expired because I probably already tried it some times ago and since I don’t know if it works, I don’t want to buy it. If you’ve it, could you try if it runs when iPad is asleep?
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@mikeno I'll do it and let it know
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@mikeno I have tried a script which prints the time each second and closed my iPad cover during 200 seconds and when I have reopened it, the script was still running
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Thx, the question is now if Pyto can read the barometer sensor value, below a short code which runs fine under Pythonista:
from objc_util import ObjCInstance, ObjCClass, ObjCBlock, c_void_p pressure = None def get_pressure(): def handler(_cmd, _data, _error): global pressure pressure = ObjCInstance(_data).pressure() handler_block = ObjCBlock(handler, restype=None, argtypes=[c_void_p, c_void_p, c_void_p]) CMAltimeter = ObjCClass('CMAltimeter') NSOperationQueue = ObjCClass('NSOperationQueue') if not CMAltimeter.isRelativeAltitudeAvailable(): print('This device has no barometer.') return altimeter = CMAltimeter.new() main_q = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue() altimeter.startRelativeAltitudeUpdatesToQueue_withHandler_(main_q, handler_block) try: while pressure is None: pass finally: altimeter.stopRelativeAltitudeUpdates() #print('Updates stopped.') return pressure.floatValue()*10 pressure = get_pressure() print(pressure)
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@mikeno I know this code but I'm new in Pyto and surely not (yet?) a specialist in ObjectiveC of Pyto.
I don't not yet know how to define an ObjcBlock in Pyto but I'll try.
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@mikeno Sorry, no idea how to define an ObjcBlock in rubicon (ObjectiveC in Pyto).
Hoping that @JonB will read this and be able to help, as usual.# coding: utf-8 from rubicon.objc import * from ctypes import * def handler(_cmd, _data, _error): print(ObjCInstance(_data)) handler_block = ObjCBlock(handler, None, [c_void_p, c_void_p, c_void_p]) def main(): CMAltimeter = ObjCClass('CMAltimeter') NSOperationQueue = ObjCClass('NSOperationQueue') if not CMAltimeter.isRelativeAltitudeAvailable(): print('This device has no barometer.') return altimeter = CMAltimeter.new() main_q = NSOperationQueue.mainQueue altimeter.startRelativeAltitudeUpdatesToQueue_withHandler_(main_q, handler_block) print('Started altitude updates.') try: while True: pass finally: altimeter.stopRelativeAltitudeUpdates() print('Updates stopped.') if __name__ == '__main__': main()
Gives
Traceback (most recent call last): File "iCloud/barometer.py", line 8, in <module> handler_block = ObjCBlock(handler, None, [c_void_p, c_void_p, c_void_p]) File "Pyto.app/Lib/rubicon/objc/api.py", line 1834, in __init__ self.struct = cast(self.pointer, POINTER(ObjCBlockStruct)) File "Pyto.app/site-packages/python3.10/ctypes/__init__.py", line 510, in cast return _cast(obj, obj, typ) ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <class 'TypeError'>: wrong type
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Thx for trying, I’ll wait!