rootScope functions not being called when using ngIdle

Question

I am using the ngIdle library and as the documentation states there are certain methods that you can call to check for user inactivity, and I have put these on the root scope.

app.run(function($rootScope) {
    $rootScope.$on('IdleTimeout', function() {
        alert('you will be logged out');
    });

    $rootScope.$on('IdleStart', function () {
        alert('test');
    });
});

These functions are never being called and I think that it might be a problem more to do with $rootscope rather than the ngidle library.

There are not any errors in console, and the ngidle library is included correctly. Any Ideas?

Can you show more code (like where you configure Idle)? it looks like they run Idle.watch() in the run block which I assume starts a watch. Then they inject Idle into a controller and listen for events there, rather than in the run block. They also configure the intervals in the config block with IdleProvider — Kevin F, May 28 '15 at 16:34
Maybe... the ngidle library is *not* included or configured correctly. Show us a complete example. — JB Nizet, Jun 05 '15 at 06:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '15 at 08:53

For me ng-idle works fine using the $rootScope. But I wasted some time waiting for the events to fire until I recognized, that the configuration expects seconds instead of milliseconds ;)

app.config(function(IdleProvider) {
    // configure Idle settings
    IdleProvider.idle(5); // in seconds!
    IdleProvider.timeout(5); // in seconds!
});

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 09:16

I spent some time struggling with this too; none of the events were firing at all. Turns out that you need to call Idle.watch() so that the timing starts.

This isn't well documented; documentation is patchy and none of the examples I saw had this. All looked just like the code you have so I couldn't figure out what's wrong until I saw it in the Getting Started section on the library's GitHub page. It's not explicitly mentioned though, you have to look closely.

.run(function(Idle){
    // start watching when the app runs. also starts the Keepalive service by default.
    Idle.watch();
});

Then the second catch: once you get auto-logged out once, it will no longer time your session if you login again without reloading the app. You need to call Idle.watch() again from your Login method to reset the timers and start again.

rootScope functions not being called when using ngIdle

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