Porteus

Hello all!

Few weeks ago I installed a kiosk with Porteus Kiosk 4.8.0 in a school to display teacher replacement.
Everything works fine with that.

For power saving reasons I scheduled automatic actions from remote TXT file management:
"scheduled_action=Monday-16:00 Tuesday-16:00 Wednesday-16:00 Thursday-16:00 Friday-16:00 Saturday-07:00 Sunday-07:00 action:echo mem > /sys/power/state"

The promlem is very interesting.
The scheduled actions written above works only on every second day...

So that means:
Monday goes to mem powersate succesfully
Tuesday DOESN'T go to mem powerstate
Wednesday goes to mem powersate succesfully
Thursday DOESN'T go to mem powerstate
Friday goes to mem powersate succesfully
Saturday DOESN'T go to mem powerstate
Sunday goes to mem powersate succesfully

What am I missing or doing wrong?

PS:
The machine is: Asus ET1611 AIO
The motherboard only knows "RESUME ON RTC ALARM", so thats why I set echo mem > /sys/power/state instead of poweroff.
And my timezone/NTP from remote TXT file management is:
"timezone=Europe/Budapest"

Thanks:
Karesz
Hungary

Suspend to RAM may confuse scheduled actions parameter.

Better do full power off and RTC wake as your motherboard supports it:
https://porteus-kiosk.org/parameters.html#rtc_wake

Thanks

Unfortunately the mobo supports only rtc resume.

Any advice instead of suspend to ram?
cat /sys/power/state indicates: standby not availalble

Maybe echo disk > /sys/power/state ?

In this case you would need to program cron daemon using 'run_command=' as explained here:
https://porteus-kiosk.org/faq.html#22

Thanks!

Is this correct, if I would like to send the machine to mem on weekdays at 16:00 and on weekends at 7:00? (bios only support every day or one day, so the rtc resume time is 6:55 am)

run_command=echo '0 16 * * 1-5 root su - -c "echo mem > /sys/power/state"' >> /etc/crontab; echo '0 7 * * SAT,SUN root su - -c "echo mem > /sys/power/state"' >> /etc/crontab

And my further questions are:
Should I remove the scheduled_action= line?
And, is there a specific place for run_command= line, or can I paste where I want in the config TXT file?

Thanks again Fanthom!

"Is this correct, if I would like to send the machine to mem on weekdays at 16:00 and on weekends at 7:00? "
Seems to be ok.

"Should I remove the scheduled_action= line?"
Yes

"is there a specific place for run_command= line, or can I paste where I want in the config TXT file?"
Anywhere in the config (unless you have nested configurations enabled, if yes then specific rules apply).

I upgraded the config file.
I'm going to inform you from the news : - )

Thx a lot!

Sorry, a last question:

One thing is not clear:
Do I need to put echo mem > /sys/power/state command between quotes " "?

Like:
run_command=echo '0 16 * * 1-5 root su - -c "echo mem > /sys/power/state"' >> /etc/crontab; echo '0 7 * * SAT,SUN root su - -c "echo mem > /sys/power/state"' >> /etc/crontab

Or without " ":
run_command=echo '0 16 * * 1-5 root su - -c echo mem > /sys/power/state' >> /etc/crontab; echo '0 7 * * SAT,SUN root su - -c echo mem > /sys/power/state' >> /etc/crontab

Do I need to put echo mem > /sys/power/state command between quotes " "?
Yes

Hello Fanthom!

Injecting into cron seems to work fine.
My kiosk goes to mem and wakes when it should.

Thanks again!
Lets develop this cool distro