Multiple time windows in day-of-week override

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Brian Priebe Send message Joined: 15 Mar 10 Posts: 10	Message 35603 - Posted: 3 Nov 2010, 14:15:43 UTC Last modified: 3 Nov 2010, 14:16:07 UTC With the advent of time-of-use billing for electricity here, I'd like to suspend BOINC tasks for the peak rate periods. Is there a way to specify more than one time period in the day-of-week override? ID: 35603 ·
Pepo Send message Joined: 3 Apr 06 Posts: 547	Message 35604 - Posted: 3 Nov 2010, 19:13:15 UTC - in response to Message 35603.   I suspect you would have to use cron jobs (Unix) or Task Scheduler (Windows) and make separate calls like "c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinccmd.exe" --set_run_mode never {duration} at the beginnings of your peak rate periods, where {duration} is the time (in seconds) how long should BOINC keep the computation snoozed. (Maybe you will have to set the current dir into BOINC data folder prior to launching the command - for successful authentication.) Peter ID: 35604 ·
Pepo Send message Joined: 3 Apr 06 Posts: 547	Message 35607 - Posted: 4 Nov 2010, 0:11:29 UTC - in response to Message 35605.   While living in Germany, I've been using an electricity tariff with 3 differently expensive rates during working days and 2 over weekends. The most expensive one was active twice a day - the peak rate periods at the morning and evening (like <night>-<morning peak>-<daytime>-<evening peak>-<night>) . I could imagine I'd like to suspend BOINC especially during these periods back then. Peter ID: 35607 ·
Brian Priebe Send message Joined: 15 Mar 10 Posts: 10	Message 35615 - Posted: 5 Nov 2010, 17:00:09 UTC - in response to Message 35607.   Last modified: 5 Nov 2010, 17:00:48 UTC The most expensive one was active twice a day - the peak rate periods at the morning and evening (like <night>-<morning peak>-<daytime>-<evening peak>-<night>) That is pretty much the scheme they have adopted here for the winter. The summer peaks are configured differently for air conditioning use mid-day. If I can configure it for overlapping midnight, then I can at least get it running 10hrs/day in the cheapest period. But there are 6 hours of mid-peak in mid-day that would be excluded. It's too bad it doesn't take a comma-separated list. ID: 35615 ·

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