update automatic data input

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There is no option in menu to do that. You will need a Live Programmable Source.

in the `Script’ part, put vtkPython code to read your file

from paraview.vtk.vtkIOXML import vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader as vtuReader
# adapt here to use the appropriate reader
reader = vtuReader()
reader.SetFileName('/path/to/file.vtu')
reader.Update()

self.GetOutputDataObject(0).ShallowCopy(reader.GetOutput())

in the second part, Script (CheckNeedsUpdate), write the conditionnal check you want. The first script will be executed only when SetNeedsUpdate(True) is called in this second script.

import time
if not hasattr(self, "_my_time"):
  setattr(self, "_my_time", time.time())

t = time.time()
lastTime = getattr(self, "_my_time")
# adapt here to set the time (in sec) you want to wait between updates
if t - lastTime > 60:
  setattr(self, "_my_time", t)
  self.SetNeedsUpdate(True)
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