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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");
};
});