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Using node cron
bigkevmcd edited this page Oct 16, 2012
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It's simple to use the cron module for Node.js to turn on and off lights...
It'd be nice to calculate sunrise/sunset and do this, either at midnight, set up cron jobs for the day ahead, or run every minute and determine whether or not the sun has set.
I suspect with a Dawn/Dusk detector, it'd be trivially possible to just handle the message appropriately.
var rfxcom = require('rfxcom'), cronJob = require('cron').CronJob, rfxtrx = new rfxcom.RfxCom('/dev/ttyUSB0', {debug: true}), lightwave = new rfxcom.LightwaveRf(rfxtrx); var GARAGE_LIGHT = "0xFAC271/1"; var turnLightsOn = function () { lightwave.switchOn(GARAGE_LIGHT); console.log("Light turned on"); }; var turnLightsOff = function () { lightwave.switchOff(GARAGE_LIGHT); console.log("Light turned on"); }; var job = new cronJob('00 00 07 * * *', turnLightsOff, null, true); var job = new cronJob('00 00 19 * * *', turnLightsOn, null, true); rfxtrx.initialise(function (error) { if (error) { throw new Error("Unable to initialise the rfx device"); }; });