ReactiveMethod to update template periodically

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template.js

import { ReactiveMethod} from 'meteor/simple:reactive-method';

Template.staging.helpers({
	'status': function () {
		let status = ReactiveMethod.call('Staging.status');

		return status;
	}
});

template.html

<template name="staging">
	<h1>Staging</h1>

	<table class="table">
		<tr><th>New Documents</th><td>{{status.new}}</td></tr>
		<tr><th>Documents in Error</th><td>{{status.error}}</td></tr>
	</table>
</template>

I have tried multiple different versions of this, which always lead to ReactiveMethod complaining it can’t be used outside of a Tracker Computation.

Ideally I’d want the values to update for example on a set interval of 5 seconds, but I can’t wrap ReactiveMethod.call to interval without “…outside Tracker Computation”-error.

How to achieve this without having to publish anything from the collection to the client - I just want counts via ReactiveMethod.call?

Now only way to get updated values is by refreshing browser, which is far from ideal…

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If you want to control the interval manually, why use ReactiveMethod?
The point of that one is to be… reactive?
Just use a normal method call

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Template.staging.onCreated(function(){
   var instance = this;
   instance.status = new ReactiveVar();
   instance.statusCheck = function(){
      Meteor.call("checkStatus", function(e,r){
          instance.status.set(r)
      }
   }
   setInterval(instance.statusChec, 5000);
})

Template.status.helpers({
   status: function(){
       return.Template.instance().status.get()
   }
});
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