Proper way to restart the concurrent thread

Hi-

I have a concurrent thread that synchronizes the state on the server. In the plugin configuration, I'm allowing to edit the polling interval. How do I restart the concurrent thread when the polling interval changes?

Thanks.
Mike

Why do you need to restart the thread? In my plugins, I check to see if a poll is required pretty frequently (minimum polling interval), but don't actually do the poll unless it's time. Something like:

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   def runConcurrentThread(self):

      try:
         while True:
            if (self.pollFrequency > 0.0) and (time.time() > self.next_poll):
               self.next_poll = time.time() + self.pollFrequency
               for dev in indigo.devices.iter("self"):
                  if (dev.deviceTypeId == "twilioNumber"):
                     self.checkMessages(dev)
            self.sleep(60.0)


In this case, the minimum polling interval is one minute. Then, to update the polling interval:

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   def closedPrefsConfigUi(self, valuesDict, userCancelled):
      if not userCancelled:
         self.pollFrequency = float(self.pluginPrefs.get('pollFrequency', "10")) * 60.0
         self.logger.debug(u"pollFrequency = " + str(self.pollFrequency))
         self.next_poll = time.time()


[jay (support)]

+1 on FlyingDiver's suggestion - no need to restart it.

To answer the question though, you can't restart runConcurrentThread.

Thanks both, this is helpful.