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== Clock based On/off system == | == Clock based On/off system == | ||
− | + | In this post I am going to work with crontab. What I am going to show is how you can make it possible to turn a light on or off on special times. | |
− | I | + | I made this as some anti-criminal technique. So, that when I am away the lights are still on at night or day in the house. With that the house doesn't look like a house that has nobody in it. |
− | For this system I am of course going to try it with shorter times otherwise I have to wait 8 hours for a lamp to get on or off. | + | For this system I am of course going to try if it works with shorter times otherwise I have to wait 8 hours for a lamp to get on or off. |
So when I start the code I plan it 1 minute in the future. | So when I start the code I plan it 1 minute in the future. | ||
− | I already made a lamp go on and off in [[blog 02]]. So I am going to use that same | + | I already made a lamp go on and off in [[blog 02]]. So I am going to use that same way for turning on and off the lamp. |
− | + | Working with crontab has to all be done manually: | |
crontab -e | crontab -e | ||
− | has to be done to open | + | has to be done to open crontab for editing |
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+ | I then have to put this in to make it work to turn the light on at 13:19 and turn the light off at 13:20: | ||
# mm hh dom mon dow command | # mm hh dom mon dow command | ||
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To read a certain part: | To read a certain part: | ||
crontab -l |grep bin/gpio | crontab -l |grep bin/gpio | ||
− | ( | + | ( With -v you can also let the other parts without bin/gpio appearing. |
For the people who don't understand: | For the people who don't understand: | ||
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( You can of course also use it as alarm clock, then you only have to change the command to the location of the audio file you want to play.) | ( You can of course also use it as alarm clock, then you only have to change the command to the location of the audio file you want to play.) | ||
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== manual Display Alarm == | == manual Display Alarm == |
Latest revision as of 12:27, 26 October 2015
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Clock based On/off system
In this post I am going to work with crontab. What I am going to show is how you can make it possible to turn a light on or off on special times. I made this as some anti-criminal technique. So, that when I am away the lights are still on at night or day in the house. With that the house doesn't look like a house that has nobody in it.
For this system I am of course going to try if it works with shorter times otherwise I have to wait 8 hours for a lamp to get on or off.
So when I start the code I plan it 1 minute in the future.
I already made a lamp go on and off in blog 02. So I am going to use that same way for turning on and off the lamp.
Working with crontab has to all be done manually:
crontab -e
has to be done to open crontab for editing
I then have to put this in to make it work to turn the light on at 13:19 and turn the light off at 13:20:
# mm hh dom mon dow command 19 13 * * * /usr/local/bin/gpio write 3 1 20 13 * * * /usr/local/bin/gpio write 3 0
To read a certain part:
crontab -l |grep bin/gpio
( With -v you can also let the other parts without bin/gpio appearing.
For the people who don't understand:
- 1 (mm)Minute 0-59
- 2 (hh)Hour 0-23 (0 = midnight)
- 3 (dom)Day 1-31
- 4 (mon)Month 1-12
- 5 (dow)Weekday 0-6 (0 = Sunday)
So the text from my is now saying:
gpio write 3 1 at 13:19 gpio write 3 0 at 13:20
To manually change it in the command line:
( echo "# mm hh dom mon dow command" ; echo '19 13 * * * /usr/local/bin/gpio write 3 1' ; echo '20 13 * * * /usr/local/bin/gpio write 3 0' ) | crontab
( You can of course also use it as alarm clock, then you only have to change the command to the location of the audio file you want to play.)