gmail IMAP idle stalls after a while?

[blysik]

Setup gmail running via IMAP and IDLE. Things work fine for a while, then in my logs I see something like this:

Dec 15, 2016, 4:28:13 AM
Better Email Debug Gmail IMAP: IDLE Event Received
Better Email Debug Gmail IMAP: Doing checkMsgs
Better Email Debug Gmail IMAP: msg_ids = ['']

Dec 15, 2016, 4:29:30 AM
Z-Wave received "002 - Luminance" sensor update to 0 lux

Dec 15, 2016, 4:36:00 AM
Better Email Debug Gmail IMAP: IDLE Event Received
Better Email Debug Gmail IMAP: Doing checkMsgs

And it just stops. It doesn't do anything after that until I restart the Better Email plugin,.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[FlyingDiver]

As far as I can tell, it's a Gmail bug. It just stops sending to IDLE connections. The best I can suggest is that you set a schedule (hourly, maybe) that disables then enables the GMail server device. That will cause it to reconnect to GMail. Just make sure you delay the enable action by 10 or 15 seconds after the disable.

[blysik]

Sounds good. I'm having trouble finding my IMAP server device under the Actions. Am I missing something obvious? I can't get to it via 'Device Actions' or 'Better Email' actions.

[FlyingDiver]

Enabling/disabling devices is an Indigo server action. So Server Actions -> Enable/Disable Actions

[blysik]

Aha! Got it, thanks.

[Bollar]

FWIW, I have been using the following Python script to do a restart:

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plugin = indigo.server.getPlugin("com.flyingdiver.indigoplugin.betteremail")
if plugin.isEnabled():
   plugin.restart()

[FlyingDiver]

FWIW, I have been using the following Python script to do a restart:

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plugin = indigo.server.getPlugin("com.flyingdiver.indigoplugin.betteremail")
if plugin.isEnabled():
   plugin.restart()

That certainly will work, but I'm thinking why restart the whole thing when it's just the one connection that needs a restart? Though I think I was the one that told you to do it that way.

I guess I could add an action that would restart the connection. Not sure it's worth the effort.

[Bollar]

I guess I could add an action that would restart the connection. Not sure it's worth the effort.

Probably not. This account is pretty much my sole remaining tie to Google, so perhaps I'll migrate to something else...