2012/7/9 Richie Cyngler <glitchpop@gmail.com>
Hi All,

I'm planning on using Pd for an installation in Melbourne in a couple of weeks. It's running fine, Pduino working, sensors working. I'm just wondering is there is a object (or series) of objects I can use to "power down" the patch, or even kill Pd, at a designated time. The installation will run into the night for a week, I'll be there to start it up each night but not to shut it down. I'm probably running on OSX, windows may be an option. A sleep or shutdown timer for the OS would be very useful too, seems odd these are not standard.


What I sometimes do is (using a desktop computer):
Set the computer's BIOS power setting to 'always on' so that the computer starts up as soon as it gets power.
Then set up the necessary startup scripts to start your patch automatically when the computer is switched on.
Use a simple household timer to switch the power of the computer on and off.
(this may be a bad idea when there is a risk that your patch is writing to disk heavily while the computer gets switched off...
I never used this with patches that need to write to disk)

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot

--
Richie



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