KWGT Flow Web Get not running at 2 min intervals

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Hi, first time user of KWGT, must say pretty neat app!

Hope we could resolve the following problem:

I have configured a simple flow, that should trigger every 2min to fetch some json data into global variable “json”.

Flow config:

  1. Cron (*/2 * * * *)

  2. Delay 1 sec

  3. Web Get

  4. Set Global Var

  5. Delay 1 sec

Data returned is in form {“Prop1”: “##.##”, “Prop2”: “##.##”, “tsunix”: “unixtimestmap_seconds”}

Everything works great in “Test Flow”. I am saving each property in global variables and displaying them on widgets and notification. In addition I display timespan from last “tsunix” with $tf(gv(tstdat))$ as seen on attached images. “tstdat” is global variable date parsed from “tsunix”.

So the widgets and notifications update each minute, and $tf$ function increments as it should (it displays “1 min ago, 2 min ago, 3 min ago”).

But the flow does not execute every time as the json “tsunix” property can be unchanged for 20min, or sometimes 6 hours.

Normally Notification data is updated more frequently than Widgets data and both display $tf$ as should.

How to solve so that flow will be triggered more consistently?

KWGT version: 3.81b530915

Phone: Galaxy Ultra24, One UI 8.0, Android 16.

I followed instructions for whitelisting app on How to whitelist Kustom from Battery Optimization | Kustom HQ

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Notification and widget. It should trigger every 2min. Notification flow data get was last triggered 9 min ago and widgets 14 min ago. Both were updated in 1 min intervals as $tf$ output increments.

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I’ll try to briefly explain why this is happening.

Android’s background and battery optimization systems (even if whitelisted) absolutely hate frequent background tasks. The system treats a 2-minute Cron timer from a widget app as a low priority, delaying or skipping it entirely to save power. This is why it works perfectly inside the editor (“Test Flow”) but fails on the actual home screen.

Also, Kustom’s Flow engine adds its own overhead and queue delays, making background loops highly unstable.

Use the native $wg() function inside a Global text variable to pull the JSON. It’s much lighter and doesn’t get stuck like Flows do.

Add a Manual Refresh Button. Select any widget element, go to Touch → Action → Kustom Action, and choose Force RSS/Text/Web Update.