No, sorry, it is still not clear to me.
Do you mean you want to open a session every hour? If so, to what end?, Or do you mean you want to automatically open the app and set some control values so you get some code executed? In which case I would insist on saying that, this is not the use case for a shiny app and you should isolate the required code in a script and schedule it using cron or any other scheduler.