PowerBuddy

powerbuddy is a command line utility, written in JavaScript using Node.js and allows you to create exact schedules when to start and shutdown a unix based computer.

Requirements

Hardware

• Bios with support for scheduled system startups using RTC, aka real-time clock

Software

• Node.JS >= 0.10
• Unix-based operating system, providing:
  • working shutdown system utilities for shutting down the system
  • working at system utilities for scheduling jobs
  • enabled rtc kernel module for scheduling automated system startups

Manage a Schedule

How PowerBuddy works

After setting up a schedule, powerbuddy looks for the next upcoming shutdown task. At the tasks execution time, following steps are planned to be executed:

powerbuddy syncsystem
shutdown -P now

powerbuddy syncsystem schedules the next automatic system startup according to the schedule. Further it plans the next execution of the two commands mentioned above again.

Finally, shutdown -P now shuts your system down.

Rescheduling

If you edit a schedule which is already in place, powerbuddy ensures that everything scheduled before is cleaned up. After that, the updated schedule is used to plan the latest actions.

Disable PowerBuddy

If you just want to stop powerbuddy from managing your systems up- and downtimes, simply call powerbuddy disable.