As part of my attempt to lower bandwidth usage with emoncms, I am wondering whether it is possible to use the Page Visibility JS method, to stop the pages updating and calling when not targeted?
I like to leave the page open in the background, but there’s not really any point of it actually updating when not targeted.
I know it doesn’t seem a lot, but I host my emoncms on AWS and bandwidth costs money. Here are my stats so far this month … (hopefully I’ve reduced the post.json as have migrated to mqtt_input)
Any reason, I shouldn’t look into working on this?
Here is an example of page visibility …