Page Builder 2 - close after 5 min?

[Steve Q]

Jon,

Is there a way to make a webpage close after 5-10 minutes? I have an event that opens a PageBuilder2 webpage and shows my security camera. I woulld like it to close the Tab (IE 7) after a few minutes. Is this possible?

Steve Q

[jon00]

Because I provide a method to insert code in the head tag of the page, I expect it would be possible to add some Java-script to close the page after a fixed time.

[jon00]

Actually Steve, I think the answer is going to be no. I forgot that most browsers now either stop or give you warnings about Java-script trying to close a page for you.

[Steve Q]

Thanks Jon. I had a feeling this would not be easy, so I came up with 2 potential work arounds. The first one uses AutoIt to close the tab, the second way is to just kill off Internet Explorer with tskill. But after thinking about it a bit more, I decided to add a condition to the Homeseer event to only trigger if I am at my desk (based on a motion sensor). I think this is a more elegant solution.

Thanks for your input.

Steve Q