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Re: Continuous or timed?by Bod (Parson) |
on Dec 14, 2020 at 14:13 UTC ( [id://11125159]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
The consensus and my gut feeling both suggested 2 so that is the option I have settled on... The control software is working - it needs more development but I am up against a time restriction as Christmas is coming and this controller is supposed to be a Christmas gift! I'm using only code modules as installing anything from CPAN seems to fail but this can be addressed later provided I set up a way to SSH onto the RPi before it gets installed in its new home. The problem I have hit is with CRON. The first few lines of the script are: But, despite the shebang line, it won't run simply by calling curtains.pl it needs perl curtains.pl instead. Perl is definitely installed in /usr/bin/perl and I also get this: So I suspect I have something wrong in this setup. Within the crontab I have added: but I am not getting emails with any errors from CRON. I am using the default pi account which I believe is the RPi equivalent to root.
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