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Always on feature service running as daemon

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Requesting consideration for an "always-on" feature where the app runs as a daemon and can be connected to at any time if needed. As of now the connection is terminated when the session exists.

November 23, 2023

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Thanks for reaching out with your "always-on" feature idea. It's a great suggestion, and we can see how running the app as a background daemon would be super handy. While we're figuring out the best way to integrate this smoothly into localportal, you might want to explore using a task manager like systemctl or supervisor to keep things running behind the scenes. That's not the official solution we're aiming for, but it could be a neat stopgap.

For understanding your setup and to serve you better, could you answer below questions

Which all operating systems would you be running localportal from?
Do you prefer localportal setting up the service by itself or giving copy/paste-able suggestions for you to set it up. Setting it up by itself would require you to give it sudo/admin access probably.

Admin Account

For setting it up for my system using systemctl, this is what I did!

Made a file for localportal service at

/etc/systemd/system/localportal.service

added this content

[Unit]
Description=Localportal
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/localportal link jetson --disable-tui
Restart=always
User=username
Group=groupname
WorkingDirectory=/home/username
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

then ran

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable localportal
sudo systemctl start localportal

and for status

sudo systemctl status localportal

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Admin Account: Mostly *inx based machines.

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Admin Account: This sounds great will check it out. Thanks.