Set folding to run at specific hours/days

[Tropical Snowman]

Hello there,
is there a way to schedule Folding to run only during specific hours and days? For example, to take advantage of lower electricity rates, or to warm up during winter nights or avoid too much heat during summer.

In my case, the reason would be electricity rates and I'd like to set Folding to run from 23:00 (11 pm) to 16:00 (4 pm) next day; and full day on Sundays.

Thanks

[jonault]

There's nothing built into the client that does that. I think you could use automation features built into your OS together with command line commands to pause & resume folding on a schedule, but I haven't attempted it myself.

[Mxyzptlk]

If you are running 7.6.21, you can us this to do that. But nothing for V8...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detai ... ahoe?pli=1

[Tropical Snowman]

Mmmh, so nobody has ever requested that feature? Should I request it for the new release?

[muziqaz]

Mmmh, so nobody has ever requested that feature? Should I request it for the new release?

How did you assume that no one requested that feature?

[Joe_H]

It has been a requested feature to be built into the client since the v7 days. But it is so far down the priority list for the one paid developer that I doubt it will ever be included. However the API for the v7 client was published, various people did create add-ons or scripts to do scheduling. The API for v8 has not been explicitly posted, but the client and web control are open source. I vaguely recall seeing mention that someone had created an alternate control for v7 that included scheduling.

[calxalot]

Some people are using whatever native scheduling exists on their OS with either fahctl or lufah.

[calxalot]

Allow scheduling folding at certain times
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-we ... /issues/53