My widget displays house info (ie what doors are open, who's calling, etc).  Right now I'm polling, downloading an xml file every couple of seconds.  I don't really like this but it is the simplest method I can think of, I'm way new to actionscript and chumby.

Chumby has a web server and why couldn't my computer http to a cgi on the chumby when my computer changes the xml file.  That way when my xml file changes I can ping my chumby to go read it.  It could be as simple as incrementing some global var, that way my widget can poll this actionscript var and read the xml only when I need to.

Is there a way to do something like this now?

Thanks
-doug