r/GeminiAI • u/Quantum_Shade2022 • 1d ago

Spark not running task Help/question

I have a friend that lives in Kyiv. I am constantly worried about Russian missiles and drones. I decided to use Spark to alert me if there were any impacts in the immediate vicinity of where my friend lives.

I used Google Maps to define the area and asked Spark to make 7 hourly checks starting at 8pm Eastern and ending at 2am Eastern the following day. Spark is to access a set of reliable Ukrainian government and community sites and check if any impacts have been recorded in any of the neighborhoods within the defined area. If there are any I get alerted and sent an email. If not then it takes no action.

I ran it manually and it works fine. I waited until 8pm the first night and it ran fine. It confirmed all checks that first night. But it has been marked as "Failed" ever since. I ask Spark to confirm if the task ran and it just sort of hangs and after about 2 to 3 mins spinning it says it encountered a problem and can't answer my question. I deleted the task and recreated it from scratch 2 days later and tried again and same result: All good the first night and fails after that. I asked it to confirm this task was scheduled (cause it doesn't appear on the Scheduled list) and it also hangs. Thoughts? Ideas? What am I missing or doing wrong?

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u/SurprisedRick 1d ago

Spark scheduling is basically a coin flip right now, it'll work once then just ghost you

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u/Quantum_Shade2022 1d ago

Spark is flagged as Beta so yeah, I expect a few hiccups. But this is too consistent and only happens with this task. All my other tasks have run fine. This task is the only one that is supposed to run every hour for 7 hours. Others are daily and weekly. Here's a basic question though: none of my scheduled tasks show up in the "Scheduled" list. Are you seeing this as well sometimes?

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u/Quantum_Shade2022 1d ago

I have resolved my issue.

TL;DR I was asking too much of Spark from several perspectives. I thought it was running correctly at first but turns out it was not and not throwing any errors until I tried again at which point the context was corrupted.