Author Topic: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?  (Read 4103 times)

Offline Monolith1

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Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« on: May 31, 2010, 02:41:44 am »
Thanks for this great program, I use it every day.

I have recently changed plans with my ISP and my off peak is now 0330-0830. I would like to be able to maximise my off peak downloads but I cannot find an easy way to configure the scheduler for the new ##:30 time slots.

Would it be possible in a future version to allow users to set the scheduler in 30 minute blocks?

Thanks!

Offline davidq666

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Re: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2010, 08:31:57 am »
if there was a change to the schedueler i'd be for fully configurable. having half hour squares would get quite messy i think. Something simular to the way RSS filters are working right now: just put in the day of the week, the timeperiod and the percentage of bandwidth altbinz should use and off u go. something like:


Day      |Begin |End  |Action

Mo |0317 |0843 |bw limit 54

and entering information this way could easily be expanded if in the future the scheduler should be able to do more than just limit bandwidth:

Mo |0317 |0843 |traffic limit 750M
Tue, Wed, Sat |1514 |1848 |shutdown
Mo-So|0100 |1300|server 1
Mo-So|1301|0059|server 2

also see: https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?topic=3020.0
« Last Edit: May 31, 2010, 08:56:14 am by davidq666 »

Offline cr4zyfr4g

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Re: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2010, 08:23:21 pm »
there is another way ;)

you can set the local time on your computer + 30min or -30min

Offline hiska

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Re: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2010, 06:50:02 pm »
This feature would be greatly appreciated, I believe altbinz is the ultimate app for newsgroups, but I find myself looking at SABnzbd Plus as it does have this feature, but is nothing compared to altbinz.

Cheers
« Last Edit: July 30, 2010, 06:52:23 pm by hiska »

Offline rapid111111

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Re: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 04:38:55 pm »
i think instead of time blocks, it would be better if one were allowed to fill a parameter allowing to change timings to the minute.
so for example, "no downloading between 8:17am to 11:12pm." Some ISP's clocks for when unlimited downloading begins are a few minutes off your own computer clock.

Offline mankmeister

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Re: Scheduler - 30 minute time blocks?
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2011, 12:59:44 pm »
It is possible to schedule alt.binz to connect or disconnect at any time you want by making use of the altbinz_status.xml file.

Once enabled (Setup/Misc #2/Enable status in XML file), you can use Powershell to toggle the 'connect' value between 'true' and 'false'.

The following paths refer to Windows 7, edit as necessary for XP or other.

Save the following code to a file called 'disconnect.ps1'.

$xml = New-Object XML
$xml.Load("C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Alt.Binz\altbinz_status.xml")
$xml.altbinz | Where-Object { $_.connect -eq 'true' } | ForEach-Object { $_.connect = 'false' }
$xml.Save("C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Alt.Binz\altbinz_status.xml")

Swap 'true' and 'false' and save it as 'connect.ps1'.

Then, at a command prompt, run

powershell disconnect.ps1

to disconnect or

powershell connect.ps1

to connect.

You can use the Task Scheduler in Windows to schedule these to run at any time you want.