From b20e83cb8ad563b620a677920115695a00346e52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Witek <tobi@tobi-wan-kenobi.at>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:04:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [engine] Fix interval configuration

Until now, manually specifying an interval did not work, as a cast to
float was missing. Now, it's possible to specify an update interval in
seconds via "-p interval=<interval>"

fixes #54
---
 README.md           | 5 +++++
 bumblebee/engine.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c5b6a44..c5749cb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ $ ./bumblebee-status -l themes
 $ ./bumblebee-status -l modules
 ```
 
+To change the update interval, use:
+```
+$ ./bumblebee-status -m <list of modules> -p interval=<interval in seconds>
+```
+
 As a simple example, this is what my i3 configuration looks like:
 
 ```
diff --git a/bumblebee/engine.py b/bumblebee/engine.py
index 67234fe..c0ea9cc 100644
--- a/bumblebee/engine.py
+++ b/bumblebee/engine.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ class Engine(object):
             self._output.flush()
             self._output.end()
             if self.running():
-                self.input.wait(self._config.get("interval", 1))
+                self.input.wait(float(self._config.get("interval", 1)))
 
         self._output.stop()
         self.input.stop()