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I work for the IT Dept of an airport and we use 14.04 for our live view of tracking flights. I have the Flight Tracker scheduled to start 10 seconds after boot, but I would like to add an auto-refresh rate of 5 minutes to the program to keep track of flights and in case there is a moment where connection to the internet is temporarily down. How would I do this?

I have researched and found how to Delay the Startup Application but can't find a script for an auto-refresh

Do the program has autorefresh features? That's an application feature, noting to do with Ubuntu. – Braiam 3 hours ago

No it does not. Before it was connected to Windows XP and had to have an HTML file targeting the application to give it an auto-refresh. I'm new when it comes to adding bash scripts for HTML to Ubuntu. But here is the HTML file that was XP: – scros6y 3 hours ago

My question is in bash would this be the same? Or would there be a different way to set this up? – scros6y 3 hours ago

looks like a on-line application, is this "app" run in a web browser? – Mateo 3 hours ago

Yes its an app that we run inside a browser. Basically its a live view of flights incoming and outgoing. Previously, through IE but now through Chrome – scros6y 3 hours ago
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This is independent of your operating system, you can use the exact same approach. Nothing to do with bash. – terdon 3 hours ago 1
but you could write a small script to auto open that web page every so often right? maybe chrome in kiosk mode... – Mateo 3 hours ago

Would I need to place the HTML as a Startup or just place it in my home directory? – scros6y 3 hours ago

I have it set now to open in Chrome in Kiosk mode – scros6y 3 hours ago

I replaced the Web App File with the HTML File and this seems to have done the trick! Thank you! – scros6y 21 mins ago

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  • Do the program has autorefresh features? That's an application feature, noting to do with Ubuntu. – Braiam May 15 '14 at 15:56
  • No it does not. Before it was connected to Windows XP and had to have an HTML file targeting the application to give it an auto-refresh. I'm new when it comes to adding bash scripts for HTML to Ubuntu. But here is the HTML file that was XP: – scros6y May 15 '14 at 16:00
  • My question is in bash would this be the same? Or would there be a different way to set this up? – scros6y May 15 '14 at 16:04
  • looks like a on-line application, is this "app" run in a web browser? – Mateo May 15 '14 at 16:08
  • Yes its an app that we run inside a browser. Basically its a live view of flights incoming and outgoing. Previously, through IE but now through Chrome – scros6y May 15 '14 at 16:11
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    This is independent of your operating system, you can use the exact same approach. Nothing to do with bash. – terdon May 15 '14 at 16:12
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    but you could write a small script to auto open that web page every so often right? maybe chrome in kiosk mode... – Mateo May 15 '14 at 16:14
  • Would I need to place the HTML as a Startup or just place it in my home directory? – scros6y May 15 '14 at 16:46
  • I have it set now to open in Chrome in Kiosk mode – scros6y May 15 '14 at 16:47
  • I replaced the Web App File with the HTML File and this seems to have done the trick! Thank you! – scros6y May 15 '14 at 19:29
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    @scros6y please add the information from your various comments to your question - comments are deleted eventually. remember: this question will hopefully help someone else in the future. – guntbert May 15 '14 at 19:43

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