This projects has been updated and is now called Aion Scheduling System, which offers ether, token, and in general scheduling of arbitrary bytecode transactions. Aion is available on Ropsten and the MainNet, run by ETH-Pantheon. See description and code here: https://github.com/ETH-Pantheon/Aion. All the code is available, and now I am working on an upgrade that allows anyone to become an executor of calls in Aion, making the system more decentralized.

ETH-Tempus is a smart contract in the Ethereum network that allows other contracts to program calls to themselves at a particular time (block).

The main Features of ETH-Tempus are:

• Simple integration with your smart contract.
• No need to pay up front for the service.
• Single or recurrent call to the contract.
• Available on the Test Network (Rinkeby).
• Available in the main Network. (Soon)
  
  
  

ETH-Tempus allows contracts to schedule execution of functions at a particular time (block). When the block at which the call was schedule arrives, ETH-Tempus calls a callBack function in the client's contract.

In order to schedule a call, your contract should call the function requestCall in ETH-Tempus contract. This has no cost. The average gas used to schedule a call is about 25K gas.

When the block (time) at which the call was programmd arrives, the front-end application of ETH-Tempus call the target contract. After this, the contract calculate the gas used and request the payment of the gas plus a fee. This fee is 5 cents of dollar (0.05 USD). The overhead of gas used to execute the transaction is low, in average 40K gas. This make the scheduling execution higly efficient.

You can reach the service on:

• Rinkeby test network at: 0x3e82a82f018a8ebf007c3805f467164dc11f47ac
• Main Ethereum Network at : (Soon)
  
  
  

This example shows how to request and receive a call every 100 blocks. The contract should have enough ether at the time of execution to pay for the gas cost and the fee of 5 cents. Any code included inside the callBack will be executed. Use ETH-Tempus on Rinkeby for free testing.

pragma solidity ^0.4.23; 
import "./EthTempusClient.sol"; // use import "./EthTempusClientRinkeby.sol"; for testing on Rinkeby

contract YourContract is Client {
    
    uint256 public counter;

    constructor() public payable {
    // In this example:
    // Schedule a call for 100 blocks after deploying (uint256)
    // Maximun gas to expend 200K (uint256) - the sytem uses only what the network requires (including fee of ~ 5 cents of dollar).
    // Aditional parameter to identify the call (uint256)  if not required, set to zero.  
        setCallrequest(block.number + 100, 200000, 0);    
    }

    
    function callBack(uint callId) public {
        // add here the code you want to execute
        counter = callId; 
        setCallrequest(block.number + 1000, 200000, 0); // request another call in 100 blocks
    }

    
    function () public payable {}
    }

}