QML Design, required C++ logic?

You might wrap you qml app into a shell script. Pipe the input of a crontab file to your app and pipe the output back to the crontab file and call crontab, e.g.: cat MyCrontab.txt | xargs myQmlAlaramApp > MyCrontab.txt crontab MyCrontab.txt Inside qml access the argument string via: Text {         text: Qt.application.arguments[1]