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      AJSG last edited by

      I am building a MM for my child based on a Pico projector and RPI. I would like the screen to come on at a certain time and then switch off at X time. For example start at 06:30 and close at 08:30 to avoid burning the projector.

      Basically I’m building this into an R2 D2 shell, which will wake up with a Leia video (dubbed), then display weather/time for an hour or so and then shut off the projector/screen.

      In theory I’d like this sequence in crontab:

      06:30 switch on projector via USB relay
      06:32 play leia.mp4 via omxplayer
      06:34 load Magic Mirror
      08:30 unload Magic Mirror
      08:31 switch off projector via USB relay

      How can I control Magic Mirror from crontab??

      Should I play the video alarm before MM or within MM??

      Any suggestion would be most welcome.

      Thanks,

      Andrew.

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        justjim1220 Module Developer @AJSG last edited by justjim1220

        @ajsg

        https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler

        https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-AlarmClock

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          AJSG last edited by

          Thank you Jim, I will try those. Ideally I would like to go from Desktop to MM via crontab and back, without having to brute force it via pkill or similar.

          Do you have any suggestions?

          I need to be able run the relay scripts, or if connected to a monitor the vcgencmd command before and after MM.

          Thanks,

          Andrew.

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