https://github.com/swissmanu/powerbuddy

Schedule starts and shutdowns of your Linux computer.
https://github.com/swissmanu/powerbuddy

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Schedule starts and shutdowns of your Linux computer.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/swissmanu/powerbuddy
• Owner: swissmanu
• Created: 2013-11-12T20:43:50.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-09-17T11:25:56.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-09T09:18:12.634Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://github.com/swissmanu/powerbuddy
• Size: 102 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# PowerBuddy

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`powerbuddy` is a command line utility, written in JavaScript using Node.js and allows you to create exact schedules when to start and shutdown a unix based computer.

## Requirements

### Hardware

* Bios with support for scheduled system startups using `RTC`, aka *[real-time clock](https://www.linux.com/learn/docs/672849-wake-up-linux-with-an-rtc-alarm-clock)*

### Software

* nodejs

* Unix-based operating system, providing:

  * working `shutdown` system utilities for shutting down the system

  * working `at` system utilities for scheduling jobs

  * enabled `rtc` kernel module for scheduling automated system startups

## Manage a Schedule

## How PowerBuddy works

After setting up a schedule, `powerbuddy` looks for the next upcoming shutdown task.

At the tasks execution time, following steps are planned to be executed:

```bash

powerbuddy syncsystem

shutdown -P now

```

`powerbuddy syncsystem` schedules the next automatic system startup according to the schedule. Further it plans the next execution of the two commands mentioned above again.

Finally, `shutdown -P now` shuts your system down.

### Rescheduling

If you edit a schedule which is already in place, `powerbuddy` ensures that everything scheduled before is cleaned up. After that, the updated schedule is used to plan the latest actions.

## Disable PowerBuddy

If you just want to stop `powerbuddy` from managing your systems up- and downtimes, simply call `powerbuddy disable`.