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Thank you -- I was looking for this -- but there's one thing I'm looking to add: I want to actually shut down my farm when the current active tasks are done (I use a BIOS scheduled event to wake the machines up when the electricity is cheap again). So what I need to do is send-finish and then wait ...

Update: Did it! I made two batch scripts: one to tell it to finish folding and another to tell it to unpause. Both of them log to a text file in the same folder the scripts are stored in. Each script was just three lines (one to log the script starting, one to run the command and log it, and one to ...

So after doing a little more research, according to this reddit thread you can tell FAHclient to pause, unpause, and finish from command line using FAHClient --send-pause FAHClient --send-unpause FAHClient --send-finish I will do a little testing to see if this actually works. If it does it's likely...

If you post details of what operating system you are using someone may have a script they could let you have or to be able explain how to do it quickly :) Oh fair point :P I'm running Windows 10 Pro Version 1909 Build 18363.752 (guessing anything that works on Windows 10 will work on pretty much an...

bruce wrote:That feature is not built into the client. Some folks have written their own scripts within their OS.

I was guessing that was the case. How would I go about making a script that could tell the client to finish (and not just outright kill the program)?

Hello. With the recent COVID-19 effort I finally decided to get into Folding @ Home. Something I've been wanting to do since getting it up and running is schedule it to stop and start during off-times. Due to COVID-19 both myself and the two others I live with are up and working during the day in ou...