roguedbear/12-hour-server

a python script to put the home "server" to sleep when wifi is disconnected at night, and wake up early the next day

12-hour-server's Issues

delete wake timers when the program exits

if the user exits the program (ctrl+c) then delete the wake timers that might be there if the program was in sleep state.
If the wake timer was for a sufficiently large duration and the user puts the computer to sleep, the machine could wake up undesirably and deplete battery (if laptop).

as of now, i haven't been able to find a way to delete waketimers in linux, so if you face this specific issue just dont use sleep_interval key in config.yaml

Do a nearest phase check again when computer wakes up.

This will correct the program if someone manually sleeps the computer, and then wake it up at a later time, so PC knows time has changed, redo a phase check and run that phase.

Periodically wake the computer (using rtc wake timer) when waiting for the "night phase"

doing this allows the program to correct its sleep timer since in case power goes out and laptop goes to sleep then:

1. it can automatically wake up from the rtc wake timer and maintain uptime
2. the program's timing won't be off when to start the night phase

replace one single timeout with different timeouts for morning & night phase

doing so i could remove the "vigorous" checks that happen 10minutes before phase end time, and keep those checks uniform.

ping the default gateway to check connectivity

in case the router is a DHCP relay the /sys/class/net/wlo1/operstate still shows up and the computer wakes up even if the main router is down.
Since i want "connection to a network" being if the main router is up, pinging the default gateway seems to be the best option

src: https://stackoverflow.com/a/932187

add unit testing.

since making changes is getting extremely tedious with worrying about if anything that works is gonna break or not

possible library to look into: freezegun

Implement Fail-Safe override to prevent computer from sleeping if multiple wakeups are detected within 60seconds

• If you need to use the computer, currently the program will automatically make the computer go to sleep if you wake it up manually.

• add a check if it detects multiple wakeups within 60seconds, stop the sleep functionality until a program restart (or a continue input)

program stuck on "sending alert message" loop until it finally sends the alert preventing it from moving on to different phase

Lines of code creating the problem:

12-hour-server/smart_sleep.py

Lines 1108 to 1119 in a2d2d5e

	while True:
	try:
	alert_onTelegram(
	"Hello There!\nToday the internet came back quite early.\nLast sleep time: `{}`".format(
	LAST_SLEEP_TIME_byProgram.strftime("%b %d %H:%M:%S")
	if LAST_SLEEP_TIME_byProgram != datetime.datetime.min
	else LAST_SLEEP_TIME.strftime("%b %d %H:%M:%S")
	)
	)
	break
	except Exception:
	continue

While this loop is running, the program would continue to spam alert_onTelegram function until it sends a message, preventing it from moving on to a different phase when enough time passes and potentially keeping the laptop awake the entire night

instead it should:

• use a timeout/sleep instead of spamming that function
• keep track of current phase, if we move on to midnight break the loop (and possibly store the current message to be sent in the next day's loop)