timesheet-beeminder-sync

Adding Beeminder datapoints from the Timesheet Android app's XML backups stored in a Dropbox folder.

Prerequisites:

• Docker installed and running.
• Create a new "Do Less" goal with a maximum of 40 hours or so per weekat https://www.beeminder.com/new and call it "work".
• Get your auth token by visiting (need to be logged in): https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json

Create a Dropbox App

1. Go to: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create
2. Choose "Dropbox API"
3. Choose "Full Dropbox"
4. Name your app, for example: "timesheet-beeminder-sync"
5. Agree to conditions and click "Create app"
6. Generate an access token as explained in this Dropbox blog post.
7. Use the token to populate .env

Run locally

• Copy the .env.template file to .env and fill in the variables.

  make dev

The dev target creates a Docker image and runs it in dev mode, meaning the source directory is mounted inside the container. So, any changes will be reflected - just run make run-dev afterwards, no need to build the image again.

Deploy to Heroku

Create a heroku account, then:

heroku login
heroku create
heroku config:set DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN=
heroku config:set DROPBOX_FOLDER=/timesheet/backup
heroku config:set BM_USERNAME=username
heroku config:set BM_AUTH_TOKEN=auth-token
heroku config:set BM_GOAL=work

Deploy the app:

git push heroku master

Look at the logs:

heroku logs --tail

Then, open the scheduler add-on:

heroku addons:open scheduler

And create a new job with the command: python src/main.py and a frequency of hourly.