As of 0.0.4, you can now subscribe to the witness schedule to track block production.
Related commit:
https://github.com/inertia186/meeseeker/commit/9999b7b29dd5bc84866d825e5649674c3bbd6743
What Changed
I added a new job called Meeseeker::WitnessScheduleJob that will publish to a channel called steem:witness:schedule. Roughly every 63 seconds, when a new schedule is created by the blockchain, this channel will trigger an event.
Under the hood, you can see we're requesting the witness schedule from the API.
After a few checks to make sure we're not processing the next schedule too early, we publish the schedule to the steem:witness:schedule channel and continue to the next schedule.
This is a separate process from the normal meeseeker sync. I've updated the README.md file to include the following:
Witness Schedule
When running meeseeker witness:schedule, the steem:witness:schedule channel is available. This is offered as a separate command because most applications don't need to worry about this level of blockchain logistics.
For example, from redis-cli, if we wanted to subscribe to the witness schedule:
$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> subscribe steem:witness:schedule
Reading messages... (press Ctrl-C to quit)
1) "subscribe"
2) "steem:witness:schedule"
3) (integer) 1
1) "message"
2) "steem:witness:schedule"
3) "{\"id\":0,\"current_virtual_time\":\"415293532210075480213212125\",\"next_shuffle_block_num\":30035208,\"current_shuffled_witnesses\":[\"thecryptodrive\",\"timcliff\",\"utopian-io\",\"themarkymark\",\"aggroed\",\"smooth.witness\",\"someguy123\",\"gtg\",\"followbtcnews\",\"yabapmatt\",\"therealwolf\",\"ausbitbank\",\"curie\",\"clayop\",\"drakos\",\"blocktrades\",\"good-karma\",\"roelandp\",\"lukestokes.mhth\",\"liondani\",\"anyx\"],\"num_scheduled_witnesses\":21,\"elected_weight\":1,\"timeshare_weight\":5,\"miner_weight\":1,\"witness_pay_normalization_factor\":25,\"median_props\":{\"account_creation_fee\":{\"amount\":\"3000\",\"precision\":3,\"nai\":\"@@000000021\"},\"maximum_block_size\":65536,\"sbd_interest_rate\":0,\"account_subsidy_budget\":797,\"account_subsidy_decay\":347321},\"majority_version\":\"0.20.8\",\"max_voted_witnesses\":20,\"max_miner_witnesses\":0,\"max_runner_witnesses\":1,\"hardfork_required_witnesses\":17,\"account_subsidy_rd\":{\"resource_unit\":10000,\"budget_per_time_unit\":797,\"pool_eq\":157691079,\"max_pool_size\":157691079,\"decay_params\":{\"decay_per_time_unit\":347321,\"decay_per_time_unit_denom_shift\":36},\"min_decay\":0},\"account_subsidy_witness_rd\":{\"resource_unit\":10000,\"budget_per_time_unit\":996,\"pool_eq\":9384019,\"max_pool_size\":9384019,\"decay_params\":{\"decay_per_time_unit\":7293741,\"decay_per_time_unit_denom_shift\":36},\"min_decay\":257},\"min_witness_account_subsidy_decay\":0}"
To update your gem:
gem update meeseeker
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